Network initiated on-demand zero-energy paging method and apparatus

ABSTRACT

A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may include one or more antennas and a first transceiver operatively coupled to the antennas. The one or more antennas and the first transceiver may be configured to receive a first signal from a network using zero energy from the WTRU. The one or more antennas and the first transceiver may be further configured to extract energy from the first signal. The first transceiver may be further configured to examine a separation between energy threshold events to decode an energy signature of the first signal. The first transceiver may be further configured to activate a second transceiver operatively coupled to the one or more antennas if the decoded energy signature matches a stored energy signature, wherein the second transceiver is powered by the WTRU. The one or more antennas and the second transceiver may be configured to receive a second signal from the network.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No.16/768,129, filed May 29, 2020, which is the U.S. National Stage, under35 U.S.C. § 371, of International Application No. of PCT/US2018/063320filed Nov. 30, 2018, which claims the benefit of U.S. ProvisionalApplication No. 62/593,631 filed on Dec. 1, 2017, the contents of whichare hereby incorporated by reference herein.

BACKGROUND

Advances in technology and connectivity for devices (e.g., mobiledevices, appliances, consumer goods, wearables, automation devices,servers, notes, transmitters, receivers, etc.) have led these devices tobenefit from network connectivity. Emerging application areas that drivethis need include smart cities, smart homes, smart energy grids,mobile-health devices, vehicle telematics, automated agriculture, assettracking, environmental monitoring, industrial monitoring, andinfrastructure monitoring. In many emerging applications, energyefficiency is a key requirement as it is desirable to maximize thebattery life of connected network devices.

SUMMARY

A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may include one or more antennasand a first transceiver operatively coupled to the one or more antennas.The one or more antennas and the first transceiver may be configured toreceive a first signal from a network using zero energy from the WTRU.The one or more antennas and the first transceiver may be furtherconfigured to extract energy from the first signal. The firsttransceiver may be further configured to examine a separation in timebetween energy threshold events to decode an energy signature of thefirst signal. The first transceiver may be further configured toactivate a second transceiver operatively coupled to the one or moreantennas if the decoded energy signature matches a stored energysignature, wherein the second transceiver is powered by the WTRU. Theone or more antennas and the second transceiver may be configured toreceive a second signal from the network.

A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may include one or more antennasand a first transceiver operatively coupled to the one or more antennas.The one or more antennas and the first transceiver may be configured toreceive a first signal from a network using zero energy of the WTRU. Theone or more antennas and the first transceiver may be further configuredto extract energy from the first signal. The first transceiver may befurther configured to examine a separation in time between energythreshold events to decode an energy signature of the first signal. Theenergy threshold events may be generated by determining that an amountof the extracted energy stored in a temporary storage element exceeds athreshold. The separation in time between energy threshold events may bebased on one or more of a capacity of the temporary storage element anda configured value of the threshold. The first transceiver may befurther configured to convert the energy threshold events to a digitalsignal by transferring the extracted energy from a temporary storageelement to a permanent storage element. The first transceiver may befurther configured to activate a second transceiver operatively coupledto the one or more antennas if the decoded energy signature matches astored energy signature. The second transceiver may be powered by theWTRU. The one or more antennas and the second transceiver may beconfigured to receive a second signal from the network.

A method for use in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may includereceiving a first signal from a network using a first transceiver. Thefirst transceiver may use zero energy from the WTRU. Energy may beextracted from the first signal. A separation in time between energythreshold events may be examined to decode an energy signature of thefirst signal. A second transceiver operatively coupled to the one ormore antennas may be activated if the decoded energy signature matches astored energy signature. The second transceiver may be powered by theWTRU. A second signal may be received from the network using the secondtransceiver powered by the WTRU.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

A more detailed understanding may be had from the following description,given by way of example in conjunction with the accompanying drawings,wherein like reference numerals in the figures indicate like elements,and wherein:

FIG. 1A is a system diagram illustrating an example communicationssystem in which one or more disclosed embodiments may be implemented;

FIG. 1B is a system diagram illustrating an example wirelesstransmit/receive unit (WTRU) that may be used within the communicationssystem illustrated in FIG. 1A according to an embodiment;

FIG. 1C is a system diagram illustrating an example radio access network(RAN) and an example core network (CN) that may be used within thecommunications system illustrated in FIG. 1A according to an embodiment;

FIG. 1D is a system diagram illustrating a further example RAN and afurther example CN that may be used within the communications systemillustrated in FIG. 1A according to an embodiment;

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating various approaches for connecting alarge number of devices to the internet;

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating Power Save Mode (PSM);

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating discontinuous reception (DRX) cycles;

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a PSM that may be used in conventionalIEEE 802.11 systems to help stations conserve power;

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating scheduled automatic power save delivery(S-APSD);

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating power save multi-poll (PSMP) delivery;

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a device power profile in LTE DRX;

FIG. 9A is diagram illustrating a 30 year battery life of a machine typecommunication (MTC) device achieved with 8 ρW leakage power and 45 hourpaging cycle;

FIG. 9B is diagram illustrating battery life of a MTC device shows thata 45 hour paging and transaction cycle may be required to achieve a 30year battery life if the leakage power is assumed to be 8 ρW;

FIG. 10A is a first diagram of a top level architecture of a facilitatorand an interrogator;

FIG. 10B is a second diagram of a top level architecture of afacilitator and an interrogator;

FIG. 11 is a top level radio architecture of a battery operated device;

FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating a top level description of amulti-mode and multi-band device;

FIG. 13A is a diagram illustrating an FDD device with a single-bandpassive transceiver;

FIG. 13B is a diagram illustrating an FDD device with a dual-bandpassive transceiver;

FIG. 14A is a diagram illustrating a half-duplex-FDD (HD-FDD) devicewith a single-band passive transceiver;

FIG. 14B is a diagram illustrating an HD-FF device with a dual-bandpassive transceiver integrated into the RF front-end;

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a TDD mode device;

FIG. 16A is a diagram illustrating a dual-band FDD device;

FIG. 16B is a diagram illustrating a single-band FDD device;

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing radio-triggered wakeup receiverarchitecture;

FIG. 18A is a simplified schematic of a single-ended architecture of thepassive front-end;

FIG. 18B is a simplified schematic of a differential or balancedarchitecture of the passive front-end;

FIG. 19A shows an output waveform V_(FE) in response to a continuouslypersistent sinusoidal input r(t);

FIG. 19B shows the passive front-end's response to a pulsed sinusoid;

FIG. 20A is a diagram illustrating an implementation of theanalog-to-information (A-to-I) converter;

FIG. 20B shows the A-to-I converter's input and output waveforms;

FIG. 21 is a circuit diagram showing an analog-to-information converterwith automatic sensitivity control

FIG. 22A shows a single-ended implementation of the A-to-I converter;

FIG. 22B shows a fully differential or balanced implementation of theA-to-I converter;

FIG. 23 is a circuit diagram showing an alternative realization of theanalog-to-information converter;

FIG. 24 is a circuit diagram showing a complete schematic of aradio-triggered wakeup receiver;

FIG. 25 is a circuit diagram showing a passive transceiver architecture;

FIG. 26A is shows stored energy thresholding event counting wakeupcommand interpreter (ET-CI) for a single input;

FIG. 26B shows a stored ET-CI for a multi-input device;

FIG. 27A shows an ET-CI configured for two threshold events from anA-to-I convertor;

FIG. 27B shows an ET-CI configured for three threshold events;

FIG. 28A shows a pulse separation decoding (PSD) data detector;

FIG. 28B shows a single input stored energy threshold event separationdecoding wakeup command interpreter (ETESD-CI);

FIG. 28C shows a three input stored energy threshold event separationdecoding wakeup command interpreter (ETESD-CI);

FIG. 29 is a diagram showing a single-input energy threshold eventseparation decoding command interpreter theory of operation;

FIG. 30 is a diagram showing a resource cube used to construct a wakeupword;

FIG. 31 is a diagram showing a transmitter structure sued to generate awakeup command;

FIG. 32A shows a symbolic representation of a 3/9th strength f₁ word;

FIG. 32B illustrates a (1, f1) wakeup word;

FIG. 32C shows wakeup words utilizing a single frequency resource and upto L time resources;

FIG. 32D illustrates a (1, f1) wakeup word;

FIG. 33A shows an alternative implementation of a ( 3/9, f1) wakeup word

FIG. 33B shows another alternative implementation of a ( 3/9, f1) wakeupword;

FIG. 34A shows a word employing a ( 3/9, f1) and a (1, fk)frequency-time resource combination;

FIG. 34B shows a {( 3/9, f1), ( 4/9, f2), (1, fk)} word;

FIG. 35A shows a word employing an identical combination of time andfrequency resources ( 3/9, f₁) and (1, f₂) on two different angleresources θ₁ and θ₂;

FIG. 35B shows a [{θ₁, (⅗, f₁)}, {θ₂, ( 4/9, f₁), (1, f₂)}] word;

FIG. 36A shows a wakeup command employing 4-word (N=4), single angle(m=1), single frequency (k=1) and five time resources (L=5) per word;

FIG. 36B shows a (3, 1, 2, 9) stored-energy threshold event stackingwakeup command employing N=3 words, m=1 angle, k=2 frequencies and L=9time resources per word;

FIG. 37A shows a first quantization level of a word that employs asingle angle resource, a single frequency resource, and 8 timeresources;

FIG. 37B shows a second quantization level of a word that employs asingle angle resource, a single frequency resource, and 8 timeresources;

FIG. 37C shows a third quantization level of a word that employs asingle angle resource, a single frequency resource, and 8 timeresources;

FIG. 37D shows a fourth quantization level of a word that employs asingle angle resource, a single frequency resource, and 8 timeresources;

FIG. 38 is a diagram showing a constant-energy amplitude modulationwaveform;

FIG. 39 is a diagram showing elements of a paging system;

FIG. 40 is a diagram showing an on-demand zero-energy paging procedure;

FIG. 41A shows eNodeB and facilitator signals;

FIG. 41B shows device signals;

FIG. 42 is a diagram showing a paging cycle period adaptation procedure;

FIG. 43A shows eNodeB power profile and signals;

FIG. 43B shows device power profiles and signals;

FIG. 44 is a diagram showing an on-demand zero-energy wakeup procedure;

FIG. 45 is a diagram showing a backscattered and modulated carrier;

FIG. 46 is a diagram showing a detection procedure example;

FIG. 47 is a diagram showing a frequency offset estimator;

FIG. 48 is a diagram showing deployment of cell clusters transmittingradio beacons on distinct frequencies to indicate TA boundaries;

FIG. 49 is a diagram showing a WTRU initiated wakeup command entrysignature assignment procedure

FIG. 50 is a diagram showing adaptive power transmission for a wake-upprocess;

FIG. 51 is a diagram showing resource block (RB) usage informationsharing amount eNBs for primary additive power estimation;

FIG. 52 is a diagram showing a specialized beacon transmission;

FIG. 53 is a diagram showing dedicated wakeup signal transmission; and

FIG. 54 is a figure showing call flow for wakeup command energysignature configuration, STA wakeup and data transfer.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

FIG. 1A is a diagram illustrating an example communications system 100in which one or more disclosed embodiments may be implemented. Thecommunications system 100 may be a multiple access system that providescontent, such as voice, data, video, messaging, broadcast, etc., tomultiple wireless users. The communications system 100 may enablemultiple wireless users to access such content through the sharing ofsystem resources, including wireless bandwidth. For example, thecommunications systems 100 may employ one or more channel accessmethods, such as code division multiple access (CDMA), time divisionmultiple access (TDMA), frequency division multiple access (FDMA),orthogonal FDMA (OFDMA), single-carrier FDMA (SC-FDMA), zero-tailunique-word DFT-Spread OFDM (ZT UW DTS-s OFDM), unique word OFDM(UW-OFDM), resource block-filtered OFDM, filter bank multicarrier(FBMC), and the like.

As shown in FIG. 1A, the communications system 100 may include wirelesstransmit/receive units (WTRUs) 102 a, 102 b, 102 c, 102 d, a RAN104/113, a CN 106/115, a public switched telephone network (PSTN) 108,the Internet 110, and other networks 112, though it will be appreciatedthat the disclosed embodiments contemplate any number of WTRUs, basestations, networks, and/or network elements. Each of the WTRUs 102 a,102 b, 102 c, 102 d may be any type of device configured to operateand/or communicate in a wireless environment. By way of example, theWTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c, 102 d, any of which may be referred to as a“station” and/or a “STA”, may be configured to transmit and/or receivewireless signals and may include a user equipment (UE), a mobilestation, a fixed or mobile subscriber unit, a subscription-based unit, apager, a cellular telephone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), asmartphone, a laptop, a netbook, a personal computer, a wireless sensor,a hotspot or Mi-Fi device, an Internet of Things (IoT) device, a watchor other wearable, a head-mounted display (HMD), a vehicle, a drone, amedical device and applications (e.g., remote surgery), an industrialdevice and applications (e.g., a robot and/or other wireless devicesoperating in an industrial and/or an automated processing chaincontexts), a consumer electronics device, a device operating oncommercial and/or industrial wireless networks, and the like. Any of theWTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c and 102 d may be interchangeably referred toas a UE.

The communications systems 100 may also include a base station 114 aand/or a base station 114 b. Each of the base stations 114 a, 114 b maybe any type of device configured to wirelessly interface with at leastone of the WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c, 102 d to facilitate access to oneor more communication networks, such as the CN 106/115, the Internet110, and/or the other networks 112. By way of example, the base stations114 a, 114 b may be a base transceiver station (BTS), a Node-B, an eNodeB, a Home Node B, a Home eNode B, a gNB, a NR NodeB, a site controller,an access point (AP), a wireless router, and the like. While the basestations 114 a, 114 b are each depicted as a single element, it will beappreciated that the base stations 114 a, 114 b may include any numberof interconnected base stations and/or network elements.

The base station 114 a may be part of the RAN 104/113, which may alsoinclude other base stations and/or network elements (not shown), such asa base station controller (BSC), a radio network controller (RNC), relaynodes, etc. The base station 114 a and/or the base station 114 b may beconfigured to transmit and/or receive wireless signals on one or morecarrier frequencies, which may be referred to as a cell (not shown).These frequencies may be in licensed spectrum, unlicensed spectrum, or acombination of licensed and unlicensed spectrum. A cell may providecoverage for a wireless service to a specific geographical area that maybe relatively fixed or that may change over time. The cell may furtherbe divided into cell sectors. For example, the cell associated with thebase station 114 a may be divided into three sectors. Thus, in oneembodiment, the base station 114 a may include three transceivers, i.e.,one for each sector of the cell. In an embodiment, the base station 114a may employ multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) technology and mayutilize multiple transceivers for each sector of the cell. For example,beamforming may be used to transmit and/or receive signals in desiredspatial directions.

The base stations 114 a, 114 b may communicate with one or more of theWTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c, 102 d over an air interface 116, which may beany suitable wireless communication link (e.g., radio frequency (RF),microwave, centimeter wave, micrometer wave, infrared (IR), ultraviolet(UV), visible light, etc.). The air interface 116 may be establishedusing any suitable radio access technology (RAT).

More specifically, as noted above, the communications system 100 may bea multiple access system and may employ one or more channel accessschemes, such as CDMA, TDMA, FDMA, OFDMA, SC-FDMA, and the like. Forexample, the base station 114 a in the RAN 104/113 and the WTRUs 102 a,102 b, 102 c may implement a radio technology such as Universal MobileTelecommunications System (UMTS) Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA), whichmay establish the air interface 115/116/117 using wideband CDMA (WCDMA).WCDMA may include communication protocols such as High-Speed PacketAccess (HSPA) and/or Evolved HSPA (HSPA+). HSPA may include High-SpeedDownlink (DL) Packet Access (HSDPA) and/or High-Speed UL Packet Access(HSUPA).

In an embodiment, the base station 114 a and the WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102c may implement a radio technology such as Evolved UMTS TerrestrialRadio Access (E-UTRA), which may establish the air interface 116 usingLong Term Evolution (LTE) and/or LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) and/orLTE-Advanced Pro (LTE-A Pro).

In an embodiment, the base station 114 a and the WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102c may implement a radio technology such as NR Radio Access, which mayestablish the air interface 116 using New Radio (NR).

In an embodiment, the base station 114 a and the WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102c may implement multiple radio access technologies. For example, thebase station 114 a and the WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c may implement LTEradio access and NR radio access together, for instance using dualconnectivity (DC) principles. Thus, the air interface utilized by WTRUs102 a, 102 b, 102 c may be characterized by multiple types of radioaccess technologies and/or transmissions sent to/from multiple types ofbase stations (e.g., an eNB and a gNB).

In other embodiments, the base station 114 a and the WTRUs 102 a, 102 b,102 c may implement radio technologies such as IEEE 802.11 (i.e.,Wireless Fidelity (WiFi), IEEE 802.16 (i.e., Worldwide Interoperabilityfor Microwave Access (WiMAX)), CDMA2000, CDMA2000 1×, CDMA2000 EV-DO,Interim Standard 2000 (IS-2000), Interim Standard 95 (IS-95), InterimStandard 856 (IS-856), Global System for Mobile communications (GSM),Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE), GSM EDGE (GERAN), and thelike.

The base station 114 b in FIG. 1A may be a wireless router, Home Node B,Home eNode B, or access point, for example, and may utilize any suitableRAT for facilitating wireless connectivity in a localized area, such asa place of business, a home, a vehicle, a campus, an industrialfacility, an air corridor (e.g., for use by drones), a roadway, and thelike. In one embodiment, the base station 114 b and the WTRUs 102 c, 102d may implement a radio technology such as IEEE 802.11 to establish awireless local area network (WLAN). In an embodiment, the base station114 b and the WTRUs 102 c, 102 d may implement a radio technology suchas IEEE 802.15 to establish a wireless personal area network (WPAN). Inyet another embodiment, the base station 114 b and the WTRUs 102 c, 102d may utilize a cellular-based RAT (e.g., WCDMA, CDMA2000, GSM, LTE,LTE-A, LTE-A Pro, NR etc.) to establish a picocell or femtocell. Asshown in FIG. 1A, the base station 114 b may have a direct connection tothe Internet 110. Thus, the base station 114 b may not be required toaccess the Internet 110 via the CN 106/115.

The RAN 104/113 may be in communication with the CN 106/115, which maybe any type of network configured to provide voice, data, applications,and/or voice over internet protocol (VoIP) services to one or more ofthe WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c, 102 d. The data may have varying qualityof service (QoS) requirements, such as differing throughputrequirements, latency requirements, error tolerance requirements,reliability requirements, data throughput requirements, mobilityrequirements, and the like. The CN 106/115 may provide call control,billing services, mobile location-based services, pre-paid calling,Internet connectivity, video distribution, etc., and/or performhigh-level security functions, such as user authentication. Although notshown in FIG. 1A, it will be appreciated that the RAN 104/113 and/or theCN 106/115 may be in direct or indirect communication with other RANsthat employ the same RAT as the RAN 104/113 or a different RAT. Forexample, in addition to being connected to the RAN 104/113, which may beutilizing a NR radio technology, the CN 106/115 may also be incommunication with another RAN (not shown) employing a GSM, UMTS, CDMA2000, WiMAX, E-UTRA, or WiFi radio technology.

The CN 106/115 may also serve as a gateway for the WTRUs 102 a, 102 b,102 c, 102 d to access the PSTN 108, the Internet 110, and/or the othernetworks 112. The PSTN 108 may include circuit-switched telephonenetworks that provide plain old telephone service (POTS). The Internet110 may include a global system of interconnected computer networks anddevices that use common communication protocols, such as thetransmission control protocol (TCP), user datagram protocol (UDP) and/orthe internet protocol (IP) in the TCP/IP internet protocol suite. Thenetworks 112 may include wired and/or wireless communications networksowned and/or operated by other service providers. For example, thenetworks 112 may include another CN connected to one or more RANs, whichmay employ the same RAT as the RAN 104/113 or a different RAT.

Some or all of the WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c, 102 d in thecommunications system 100 may include multi-mode capabilities (e.g., theWTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c, 102 d may include multiple transceivers forcommunicating with different wireless networks over different wirelesslinks). For example, the WTRU 102 c shown in FIG. 1A may be configuredto communicate with the base station 114 a, which may employ acellular-based radio technology, and with the base station 114 b, whichmay employ an IEEE 802 radio technology.

FIG. 1B is a system diagram illustrating an example WTRU 102. As shownin FIG. 1B, the WTRU 102 may include a processor 118, a transceiver 120,a transmit/receive element 122, a speaker/microphone 124, a keypad 126,a display/touchpad 128, non-removable memory 130, removable memory 132,a power source 134, a global positioning system (GPS) chipset 136,and/or other peripherals 138, among others. It will be appreciated thatthe WTRU 102 may include any sub-combination of the foregoing elementswhile remaining consistent with an embodiment.

The processor 118 may be a general purpose processor, a special purposeprocessor, a conventional processor, a digital signal processor (DSP), aplurality of microprocessors, one or more microprocessors in associationwith a DSP core, a controller, a microcontroller, Application SpecificIntegrated Circuits (ASICs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)circuits, any other type of integrated circuit (IC), a state machine,and the like. The processor 118 may perform signal coding, dataprocessing, power control, input/output processing, and/or any otherfunctionality that enables the WTRU 102 to operate in a wirelessenvironment. The processor 118 may be coupled to the transceiver 120,which may be coupled to the transmit/receive element 122. While FIG. 1Bdepicts the processor 118 and the transceiver 120 as separatecomponents, it will be appreciated that the processor 118 and thetransceiver 120 may be integrated together in an electronic package orchip.

The transmit/receive element 122 may be configured to transmit signalsto, or receive signals from, a base station (e.g., the base station 114a) over the air interface 116. For example, in one embodiment, thetransmit/receive element 122 may be an antenna configured to transmitand/or receive RF signals. In an embodiment, the transmit/receiveelement 122 may be an emitter/detector configured to transmit and/orreceive IR, UV, or visible light signals, for example. In yet anotherembodiment, the transmit/receive element 122 may be configured totransmit and/or receive both RF and light signals. It will beappreciated that the transmit/receive element 122 may be configured totransmit and/or receive any combination of wireless signals.

Although the transmit/receive element 122 is depicted in FIG. 1B as asingle element, the WTRU 102 may include any number of transmit/receiveelements 122. More specifically, the WTRU 102 may employ MIMOtechnology. Thus, in one embodiment, the WTRU 102 may include two ormore transmit/receive elements 122 (e.g., multiple antennas) fortransmitting and receiving wireless signals over the air interface 116.

The transceiver 120 may be configured to modulate the signals that areto be transmitted by the transmit/receive element 122 and to demodulatethe signals that are received by the transmit/receive element 122. Asnoted above, the WTRU 102 may have multi-mode capabilities. Thus, thetransceiver 120 may include multiple transceivers for enabling the WTRU102 to communicate via multiple RATs, such as NR and IEEE 802.11, forexample.

The processor 118 of the WTRU 102 may be coupled to, and may receiveuser input data from, the speaker/microphone 124, the keypad 126, and/orthe display/touchpad 128 (e.g., a liquid crystal display (LCD) displayunit or organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display unit). The processor118 may also output user data to the speaker/microphone 124, the keypad126, and/or the display/touchpad 128. In addition, the processor 118 mayaccess information from, and store data in, any type of suitable memory,such as the non-removable memory 130 and/or the removable memory 132.The non-removable memory 130 may include random-access memory (RAM),read-only memory (ROM), a hard disk, or any other type of memory storagedevice. The removable memory 132 may include a subscriber identitymodule (SIM) card, a memory stick, a secure digital (SD) memory card,and the like. In other embodiments, the processor 118 may accessinformation from, and store data in, memory that is not physicallylocated on the WTRU 102, such as on a server or a home computer (notshown).

The processor 118 may receive power from the power source 134, and maybe configured to distribute and/or control the power to the othercomponents in the WTRU 102. The power source 134 may be any suitabledevice for powering the WTRU 102. For example, the power source 134 mayinclude one or more dry cell batteries (e.g., nickel-cadmium (NiCd),nickel-zinc (NiZn), nickel metal hydride (NiMH), lithium-ion (Li-ion),etc.), solar cells, fuel cells, and the like.

The processor 118 may also be coupled to the GPS chipset 136, which maybe configured to provide location information (e.g., longitude andlatitude) regarding the current location of the WTRU 102. In additionto, or in lieu of, the information from the GPS chipset 136, the WTRU102 may receive location information over the air interface 116 from abase station (e.g., base stations 114 a, 114 b) and/or determine itslocation based on the timing of the signals being received from two ormore nearby base stations. It will be appreciated that the WTRU 102 mayacquire location information by way of any suitablelocation-determination method while remaining consistent with anembodiment.

The processor 118 may further be coupled to other peripherals 138, whichmay include one or more software and/or hardware modules that provideadditional features, functionality and/or wired or wirelessconnectivity. For example, the peripherals 138 may include anaccelerometer, an e-compass, a satellite transceiver, a digital camera(for photographs and/or video), a universal serial bus (USB) port, avibration device, a television transceiver, a hands free headset, aBluetooth® module, a frequency modulated (FM) radio unit, a digitalmusic player, a media player, a video game player module, an Internetbrowser, a Virtual Reality and/or Augmented Reality (VR/AR) device, anactivity tracker, and the like. The peripherals 138 may include one ormore sensors, the sensors may be one or more of a gyroscope, anaccelerometer, a hall effect sensor, a magnetometer, an orientationsensor, a proximity sensor, a temperature sensor, a time sensor; ageolocation sensor; an altimeter, a light sensor, a touch sensor, amagnetometer, a barometer, a gesture sensor, a biometric sensor, and/ora humidity sensor.

The WTRU 102 may include a full duplex radio for which transmission andreception of some or all of the signals (e.g., associated withparticular subframes for both the UL (e.g., for transmission) anddownlink (e.g., for reception) may be concurrent and/or simultaneous.The full duplex radio may include an interference management unit 139 toreduce and or substantially eliminate self-interference via eitherhardware (e.g., a choke) or signal processing via a processor (e.g., aseparate processor (not shown) or via processor 118). In an embodiment,the WTRU 102 may include a half-duplex radio for which transmission andreception of some or all of the signals (e.g., associated withparticular subframes for either the UL (e.g., for transmission) or thedownlink (e.g., for reception)).

FIG. 1C is a system diagram illustrating the RAN 104 and the CN 106according to an embodiment. As noted above, the RAN 104 may employ anE-UTRA radio technology to communicate with the WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102c over the air interface 116. The RAN 104 may also be in communicationwith the CN 106.

The RAN 104 may include eNode-Bs 160 a, 160 b, 160 c, though it will beappreciated that the RAN 104 may include any number of eNode-Bs whileremaining consistent with an embodiment. The eNode-Bs 160 a, 160 b, 160c may each include one or more transceivers for communicating with theWTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c over the air interface 116. In one embodiment,the eNode-Bs 160 a, 160 b, 160 c may implement M IMO technology. Thus,the eNode-B 160 a, for example, may use multiple antennas to transmitwireless signals to, and/or receive wireless signals from, the WTRU 102a.

Each of the eNode-Bs 160 a, 160 b, 160 c may be associated with aparticular cell (not shown) and may be configured to handle radioresource management decisions, handover decisions, scheduling of usersin the UL and/or DL, and the like. As shown in FIG. 1C, the eNode-Bs 160a, 160 b, 160 c may communicate with one another over an X2 interface.

The CN 106 shown in FIG. 1C may include a mobility management entity(MME) 162, a serving gateway (SGW) 164, and a packet data network (PDN)gateway (or PGW) 166. While each of the foregoing elements are depictedas part of the CN 106, it will be appreciated that any of these elementsmay be owned and/or operated by an entity other than the CN operator.

The MME 162 may be connected to each of the eNode-Bs 162 a, 162 b, 162 cin the RAN 104 via an S1 interface and may serve as a control node. Forexample, the MME 162 may be responsible for authenticating users of theWTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c, bearer activation/deactivation, selecting aparticular serving gateway during an initial attach of the WTRUs 102 a,102 b, 102 c, and the like. The MME 162 may provide a control planefunction for switching between the RAN 104 and other RANs (not shown)that employ other radio technologies, such as GSM and/or WCDMA.

The SGW 164 may be connected to each of the eNode Bs 160 a, 160 b, 160 cin the RAN 104 via the S1 interface. The SGW 164 may generally route andforward user data packets to/from the WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c. The SGW164 may perform other functions, such as anchoring user planes duringinter-eNode B handovers, triggering paging when DL data is available forthe WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c, managing and storing contexts of theWTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c, and the like.

The SGW 164 may be connected to the PGW 166, which may provide the WTRUs102 a, 102 b, 102 c with access to packet-switched networks, such as theInternet 110, to facilitate communications between the WTRUs 102 a, 102b, 102 c and IP-enabled devices.

The CN 106 may facilitate communications with other networks. Forexample, the CN 106 may provide the WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c withaccess to circuit-switched networks, such as the PSTN 108, to facilitatecommunications between the WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c and traditionalland-line communications devices. For example, the CN 106 may include,or may communicate with, an IP gateway (e.g., an IP multimedia subsystem(IMS) server) that serves as an interface between the CN 106 and thePSTN 108. In addition, the CN 106 may provide the WTRUs 102 a, 102 b,102 c with access to the other networks 112, which may include otherwired and/or wireless networks that are owned and/or operated by otherservice providers.

Although the WTRU is described in FIGS. 1A-1D as a wireless terminal, itis contemplated that in certain representative embodiments that such aterminal may use (e.g., temporarily or permanently) wired communicationinterfaces with the communication network.

In representative embodiments, the other network 112 may be a WLAN.

A WLAN in Infrastructure Basic Service Set (BSS) mode may have an AccessPoint (AP) for the BSS and one or more stations (STAs) associated withthe AP. The AP may have an access or an interface to a DistributionSystem (DS) or another type of wired/wireless network that carriestraffic in to and/or out of the BSS. Traffic to STAs that originatesfrom outside the BSS may arrive through the AP and may be delivered tothe STAs. Traffic originating from STAs to destinations outside the BSSmay be sent to the AP to be delivered to respective destinations.Traffic between STAs within the BSS may be sent through the AP, forexample, where the source STA may send traffic to the AP and the AP maydeliver the traffic to the destination STA. The traffic between STAswithin a BSS may be considered and/or referred to as peer-to-peertraffic. The peer-to-peer traffic may be sent between (e.g., directlybetween) the source and destination STAs with a direct link setup (DLS).In certain representative embodiments, the DLS may use an 802.11e DLS oran 802.11z tunneled DLS (TDLS). A WLAN using an Independent BSS (IBSS)mode may not have an AP, and the STAs (e.g., all of the STAs) within orusing the IBSS may communicate directly with each other. The IBSS modeof communication may sometimes be referred to herein as an “ad-hoc” modeof communication.

When using the 802.11ac infrastructure mode of operation or a similarmode of operations, the AP may transmit a beacon on a fixed channel,such as a primary channel. The primary channel may be a fixed width(e.g., 20 MHz wide bandwidth) or a dynamically set width via signaling.The primary channel may be the operating channel of the BSS and may beused by the STAs to establish a connection with the AP. In certainrepresentative embodiments, Carrier Sense Multiple Access with CollisionAvoidance (CSMA/CA) may be implemented, for example in in 802.11systems. For CSMA/CA, the STAs (e.g., every STA), including the AP, maysense the primary channel. If the primary channel is sensed/detectedand/or determined to be busy by a particular STA, the particular STA mayback off. One STA (e.g., only one station) may transmit at any giventime in a given BSS.

High Throughput (HT) STAs may use a 40 MHz wide channel forcommunication, for example, via a combination of the primary 20 MHzchannel with an adjacent or nonadjacent 20 MHz channel to form a 40 MHzwide channel.

Very High Throughput (VHT) STAs may support 20 MHz, 40 MHz, 80 MHz,and/or 160 MHz wide channels. The 40 MHz, and/or 80 MHz, channels may beformed by combining contiguous 20 MHz channels. A 160 MHz channel may beformed by combining 8 contiguous 20 MHz channels, or by combining twonon-contiguous 80 MHz channels, which may be referred to as an 80+80configuration. For the 80+80 configuration, the data, after channelencoding, may be passed through a segment parser that may divide thedata into two streams. Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) processing,and time domain processing, may be done on each stream separately. Thestreams may be mapped on to the two 80 MHz channels, and the data may betransmitted by a transmitting STA. At the receiver of the receiving STA,the above described operation for the 80+80 configuration may bereversed, and the combined data may be sent to the Medium Access Control(MAC).

Sub 1 GHz modes of operation are supported by 802.11af and 802.11ah. Thechannel operating bandwidths, and carriers, are reduced in 802.11af and802.11ah relative to those used in 802.11n, and 802.11ac. 802.11afsupports 5 MHz, 10 MHz and 20 MHz bandwidths in the TV White Space(TVWS) spectrum, and 802.11ah supports 1 MHz, 2 MHz, 4 MHz, 8 MHz, and16 MHz bandwidths using non-TVWS spectrum. According to a representativeembodiment, 802.11ah may support Meter Type Control/Machine-TypeCommunications, such as MTC devices in a macro coverage area. MTCdevices may have certain capabilities, for example, limited capabilitiesincluding support for (e.g., only support for) certain and/or limitedbandwidths. The MTC devices may include a battery with a battery lifeabove a threshold (e.g., to maintain a very long battery life).

WLAN systems, which may support multiple channels, and channelbandwidths, such as 802.11n, 802.11ac, 802.11af, and 802.11ah, include achannel which may be designated as the primary channel. The primarychannel may have a bandwidth equal to the largest common operatingbandwidth supported by all STAs in the BSS. The bandwidth of the primarychannel may be set and/or limited by a STA, from among all STAs inoperating in a BSS, which supports the smallest bandwidth operatingmode. In the example of 802.11ah, the primary channel may be 1 MHz widefor STAs (e.g., MTC type devices) that support (e.g., only support) a 1MHz mode, even if the AP, and other STAs in the BSS support 2 MHz, 4MHz, 8 MHz, 16 MHz, and/or other channel bandwidth operating modes.Carrier sensing and/or Network Allocation Vector (NAV) settings maydepend on the status of the primary channel. If the primary channel isbusy, for example, due to a STA (which supports only a 1 MHz operatingmode), transmitting to the AP, the entire available frequency bands maybe considered busy even though a majority of the frequency bands remainsidle and may be available.

In the United States, the available frequency bands, which may be usedby 802.11ah, are from 902 MHz to 928 MHz. In Korea, the availablefrequency bands are from 917.5 MHz to 923.5 MHz. In Japan, the availablefrequency bands are from 916.5 MHz to 927.5 MHz. The total bandwidthavailable for 802.11ah is 6 MHz to 26 MHz depending on the country code.

FIG. 1D is a system diagram illustrating the RAN 113 and the CN 115according to an embodiment. As noted above, the RAN 113 may employ an NRradio technology to communicate with the WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c overthe air interface 116. The RAN 113 may also be in communication with theCN 115.

The RAN 113 may include gNBs 180 a, 180 b, 180 c, though it will beappreciated that the RAN 113 may include any number of gNBs whileremaining consistent with an embodiment. The gNBs 180 a, 180 b, 180 cmay each include one or more transceivers for communicating with theWTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c over the air interface 116. In one embodiment,the gNBs 180 a, 180 b, 180 c may implement MIMO technology. For example,gNBs 180 a, 108 b may utilize beamforming to transmit signals to and/orreceive signals from the gNBs 180 a, 180 b, 180 c. Thus, the gNB 180 a,for example, may use multiple antennas to transmit wireless signals to,and/or receive wireless signals from, the WTRU 102 a. In an embodiment,the gNBs 180 a, 180 b, 180 c may implement carrier aggregationtechnology. For example, the gNB 180 a may transmit multiple componentcarriers to the WTRU 102 a (not shown). A subset of these componentcarriers may be on unlicensed spectrum while the remaining componentcarriers may be on licensed spectrum. In an embodiment, the gNBs 180 a,180 b, 180 c may implement Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) technology.For example, WTRU 102 a may receive coordinated transmissions from gNB180 a and gNB 180 b (and/or gNB 180 c).

The WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c may communicate with gNBs 180 a, 180 b,180 c using transmissions associated with a scalable numerology. Forexample, the OFDM symbol spacing and/or OFDM subcarrier spacing may varyfor different transmissions, different cells, and/or different portionsof the wireless transmission spectrum. The WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c maycommunicate with gNBs 180 a, 180 b, 180 c using subframe or transmissiontime intervals (TTIs) of various or scalable lengths (e.g., containingvarying number of OFDM symbols and/or lasting varying lengths ofabsolute time).

The gNBs 180 a, 180 b, 180 c may be configured to communicate with theWTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c in a standalone configuration and/or anon-standalone configuration. In the standalone configuration, WTRUs 102a, 102 b, 102 c may communicate with gNBs 180 a, 180 b, 180 c withoutalso accessing other RANs (e.g., such as eNode-Bs 160 a, 160 b, 160 c).In the standalone configuration, WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c may utilizeone or more of gNBs 180 a, 180 b, 180 c as a mobility anchor point. Inthe standalone configuration, WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c may communicatewith gNBs 180 a, 180 b, 180 c using signals in an unlicensed band. In anon-standalone configuration WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c may communicatewith/connect to gNBs 180 a, 180 b, 180 c while also communicatingwith/connecting to another RAN such as eNode-Bs 160 a, 160 b, 160 c. Forexample, WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c may implement DC principles tocommunicate with one or more gNBs 180 a, 180 b, 180 c and one or moreeNode-Bs 160 a, 160 b, 160 c substantially simultaneously. In thenon-standalone configuration, eNode-Bs 160 a, 160 b, 160 c may serve asa mobility anchor for WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c and gNBs 180 a, 180 b,180 c may provide additional coverage and/or throughput for servicingWTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c.

Each of the gNBs 180 a, 180 b, 180 c may be associated with a particularcell (not shown) and may be configured to handle radio resourcemanagement decisions, handover decisions, scheduling of users in the ULand/or DL, support of network slicing, dual connectivity, interworkingbetween NR and E-UTRA, routing of user plane data towards User PlaneFunction (UPF) 184 a, 184 b, routing of control plane informationtowards Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) 182 a, 182 b andthe like. As shown in FIG. 1D, the gNBs 180 a, 180 b, 180 c maycommunicate with one another over an Xn interface.

The CN 115 shown in FIG. 1D may include at least one AMF 182 a, 182 b,at least one UPF 184 a, 184 b, at least one Session Management Function(SMF) 183 a, 183 b, and possibly a Data Network (DN) 185 a, 185 b. Whileeach of the foregoing elements are depicted as part of the CN 115, itwill be appreciated that any of these elements may be owned and/oroperated by an entity other than the CN operator.

The AMF 182 a, 182 b may be connected to one or more of the gNBs 180 a,180 b, 180 c in the RAN 113 via an N2 interface and may serve as acontrol node. For example, the AMF 182 a, 182 b may be responsible forauthenticating users of the WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c, support fornetwork slicing (e.g., handling of different PDU sessions with differentrequirements), selecting a particular SMF 183 a, 183 b, management ofthe registration area, termination of NAS signaling, mobilitymanagement, and the like. Network slicing may be used by the AMF 182 a,182 b in order to customize CN support for WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 cbased on the types of services being utilized WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c.For example, different network slices may be established for differentuse cases such as services relying on ultra-reliable low latency (URLLC)access, services relying on enhanced massive mobile broadband (eMBB)access, services for machine type communication (MTC) access, and/or thelike. The AMF 162 may provide a control plane function for switchingbetween the RAN 113 and other RANs (not shown) that employ other radiotechnologies, such as LTE, LTE-A, LTE-A Pro, and/or non-3GPP accesstechnologies such as WiFi.

The SMF 183 a, 183 b may be connected to an AMF 182 a, 182 b in the CN115 via an N11 interface. The SMF 183 a, 183 b may also be connected toa UPF 184 a, 184 b in the CN 115 via an N4 interface. The SMF 183 a, 183b may select and control the UPF 184 a, 184 b and configure the routingof traffic through the UPF 184 a, 184 b. The SMF 183 a, 183 b mayperform other functions, such as managing and allocating UE IP address,managing PDU sessions, controlling policy enforcement and QoS, providingdownlink data notifications, and the like. A PDU session type may beIP-based, non-IP based, Ethernet-based, and the like.

The UPF 184 a, 184 b may be connected to one or more of the gNBs 180 a,180 b, 180 c in the RAN 113 via an N3 interface, which may provide theWTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c with access to packet-switched networks, suchas the Internet 110, to facilitate communications between the WTRUs 102a, 102 b, 102 c and IP-enabled devices. The UPF 184, 184 b may performother functions, such as routing and forwarding packets, enforcing userplane policies, supporting multi-homed PDU sessions, handling user planeQoS, buffering downlink packets, providing mobility anchoring, and thelike.

The CN 115 may facilitate communications with other networks. Forexample, the CN 115 may include, or may communicate with, an IP gateway(e.g., an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) server) that serves as aninterface between the CN 115 and the PSTN 108. In addition, the CN 115may provide the WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c with access to the othernetworks 112, which may include other wired and/or wireless networksthat are owned and/or operated by other service providers. In oneembodiment, the WTRUs 102 a, 102 b, 102 c may be connected to a localData Network (DN) 185 a, 185 b through the UPF 184 a, 184 b via the N3interface to the UPF 184 a, 184 b and an N6 interface between the UPF184 a, 184 b and the DN 185 a, 185 b.

In view of FIGS. 1A-1D, and the corresponding description of FIGS.1A-1D, one or more, or all, of the functions described herein withregard to one or more of: WTRU 102 a-d, Base Station 114 a-b, eNode-B160 a-c, MME 162, SGW 164, PGW 166, gNB 180 a-c, AMF 182 a-ab, UPF 184a-b, SMF 183 a-b, DN 185 a-b, and/or any other device(s) describedherein, may be performed by one or more emulation devices (not shown).The emulation devices may be one or more devices configured to emulateone or more, or all, of the functions described herein. For example, theemulation devices may be used to test other devices and/or to simulatenetwork and/or WTRU functions.

The emulation devices may be designed to implement one or more tests ofother devices in a lab environment and/or in an operator networkenvironment. For example, the one or more emulation devices may performthe one or more, or all, functions while being fully or partiallyimplemented and/or deployed as part of a wired and/or wirelesscommunication network in order to test other devices within thecommunication network. The one or more emulation devices may perform theone or more, or all, functions while being temporarilyimplemented/deployed as part of a wired and/or wireless communicationnetwork. The emulation device may be directly coupled to another devicefor purposes of testing and/or may performing testing using over-the-airwireless communications.

The one or more emulation devices may perform the one or more, includingall, functions while not being implemented/deployed as part of a wiredand/or wireless communication network. For example, the emulationdevices may be utilized in a testing scenario in a testing laboratoryand/or a non-deployed (e.g., testing) wired and/or wirelesscommunication network in order to implement testing of one or morecomponents. The one or more emulation devices may be test equipment.Direct RF coupling and/or wireless communications via RF circuitry(e.g., which may include one or more antennas) may be used by theemulation devices to transmit and/or receive data.

Referring now to FIG. 2 , a diagram illustrating various approaches forconnecting a large number of devices to the internet. As shown, a devicemay be connected to the internet through one or more accesstechnologies, including but not limited to, wireless personal areanetwork/local area network (PAN/LAN), a wireless wide area network(WAN), a low power WAN, or other technologies.

Energy efficiency may be a key requirement for these devices. Forexample, in internet of things (IoT) applications, it may be desirableto maximize the battery life of devices. Table 1 shows a number ofconventional approaches for reducing device cost and complexity as wellas reducing the device power consumption in IoT applications.

TABLE 1 Approaches for Extending Battery Life in IoT Devices LTE- Cat 1LTE- Cat 0 LTE- Cat M1 NB-IoT (Cat-NB) Deployment In-band LTE In-bandLTE In-band LTE In-band LTE Guard-Band LTE Standalone Downlink OFDMAOFDMA OFDMA OFDMA [15 kHz] [15 kHz] [15 kHz] [15 kHz] Uplink SC-FDMASC-FDMA SC-FDMA Single Tone [15 kHz] [15 kHz] [15 kHz] [15/3.75 kHz]Peak Rate DL: 10 Mbps DL: 1 Mbps DL: 1 Mbps DL: 250 kbps UL: 5 Mbps UL:1 Mbps UL: 1 Mbps UL: 20 kbps Receiver BW 20 MHz 20 MHz 1.4 MHz 200 kHzDuplex Mode Full-Duplex Half-Duplex Half-Duplex Half-Duplex Max Transmit23 dBm 23 dBm 23 or 20 dBm 23 or 20 dBm Power Power Saving PSM, eDRXPSM, eDRX PSM, eDRX PSM, eDRX

Two energy-efficient technologies developed in LTE include: Power SaveMode (PSM) introduced in Release 12, and the extended DRX (eDRX) cycleintroduced in Release 13. While PSM can extend the device battery lifesignificantly, a disadvantage of the PSM technology is that therespective device is not reachable while in PSM mode. In DRX mode, thedevice powers down most of its circuitry (e.g., RF transceiver, modem,applications processor, etc.) when there are no packets to betransmitted or received. A slow reference clock and a minimal amount ofcircuitry is kept active so that the WTRU can periodically wakeup andlisten to the downlink for pages. This type of scheduled approach isbroadly known as duty cycling.

Referring now to FIG. 3 , a diagram illustrating PSM is shown. Whenoperating with PSM, a WTRU may be registered to the network, though theWTRU may be considered to be switched off and power consumption may beminimal as it is may be in a deep sleep while in this state. PSM may betargeted for mobile originated use cases, where the WTRU may wake upfrom PSM when it has data to transmit. When a WTRU wakes up from PSM, itmay perform a tracking area update (TAU), and may remain reachable onlyfor a short duration of time (in idle) before it goes back to sleep.This process is shown in FIG. 3 where the WTRU is in a Dormant Periodwith very low power output. A Tx activity may result in a power spikefollowed by a paging time window before returning to a Dormant Period.Accordingly, in PSM mode, the network may not be able to reach the WTRUat a time of its choosing, as the WTRU may be in receive mode only for ashort period. There may be two periods where a WTRU in PSM negotiateswith the network. When a WTRU performs an ‘Attach Request’ or ‘TAUrequest’, the WTRU may include the following information elements (IE):T3324 for monitoring paging and T3412 for the extended periodic TAUupdate (i.e., inactivity timer as shown as Dormant Period). If thenetwork supports PSM, it may provide the resulting values of T3324 andT3412 in ‘Attach Accept’ or ‘TAU accept’. After the expiry of T3412, theWTRU may perform TAU procedures.

Referring now to FIG. 4 , a diagram illustrating DRX cycles is shown.eDRX may be more suited for mobile terminated scenarios. In DRX/eDRX,the WTRU may not generate unnecessary signaling such as the TAUprocedures in PSM mode. However the WTRU may need to wake-up duringpaging transmission windows (PTW) durations to monitor the controlchannel. The frequency of waking up for PTW duration may determine theefficiency of eDRX. For example, eDRX may be configured for as long as43.69 min in idle mode, while for connected mode it may be 10.24seconds. For DRX, the maximum time period may be 2.56 seconds. Thedifference between eDRX and DRX may be significant not only due to theduration for which the device circuitry is switched off, but also theactual power that is allocated during the DRX/eDRX cycles.

In legacy DRX, the power of the circuitry may be maintained atP_(sleep), which may be much higher than the power used when the deviceis at eDRX, P_(deep_sleep) However to transition to PTW from eDRX (orvice versa), there may be a ramp up/ramp down time of T_(prepare)required. Since there is latency involved in switching between the PTWand eDRX, there may be a need for longer time durations of the eDRXcycles. In order to take full advantage of power savings in deep sleepstate, the eDRX cycle duration may be large while PTW duration may besmall. However, this may increase the latency in reaching the WTRU.Hence an optimal value of PTW and eDRX time duration may need to bedesigned based on the latency-power trade off.

Referring now to FIG. 5 , a diagram illustrating a PSM that may be usedin conventional IEEE 802.11 systems to help stations conserve power.When entering a doze (or sleep) state, a station (STA) may send a NULLframe with a Power Management Bit set to 1, and thereafter may go intothe doze state. An AP may buffer packets addressed to the STA in PSM.The AP may notify (e.g., in its beacon message) the stations that are inPSM for which it has buffered packets through a Traffic Information Map(TIM) information element.

The STA in PSM may read this information from the beacon. To undertakethis step, the STA may need to wake-up every beacon interval, which canbe roughly 102 microseconds. Alternately, the STA may wake-up inmultiples of beacon time periods. This can occur when a bufferedbroadcast/multicast packet is to be delivered to an STA (in PSM) throughwhich the AP indicates to the STA, through Delivery TIM (DTIM), thatoccur in multiples of beacon time periods. The DTIM may also be part ofa beacon frame. However, the DTIM may be provided once over multiplebeacons, and may also indicate that the frame following the DTIM has thebroadcast/multicast data.

To retrieve the buffered packets, the STA may send a power save-poll(PS-POLL) to the AP requesting the AP to send the buffered packets. TheAP may transmit the buffered packets to the STA with More Data Bit setto 1 so that the STA can remain in an awake state until it receives allthe buffered packets. When the More Data Bit is set to 0, the STA may goback to the doze state.

The process outlined above may require that for every frame buffered bythe AP, the STA needs to send a PS-POLL to obtain the frame.Additionally, when there are several STAs and when the AP buffers alarge amount of data for several stations, there may be many PS-POLLSrequested by the STA at the same time instant, which can result inincreased collision.

In unscheduled automatic power save delivery mode (U-APSD), theprocedure for getting entering the doze state may be similar to thelegacy IEEE 802.11 PSM. However, a UL transmission (or a null dataframe) from the STA may be taken as an indicator by the AP that the STAis awake and thereby negotiates the data transfer process, as shown inFIG. 5 .

Referring now to FIG. 6 , a diagram illustrating scheduled automaticpower save delivery (S-APSD) is shown. In S-APSD, the STA may negotiatewith the AP on the scheduled service interval (SSI) and the timeduration between consecutive SSI. S-APSD may be suited for cases wherethe traffic patterns are deterministic and a pattern is followed inwhich STA may take advantage of the deterministic pattern and mayconserve power.

Referring now to FIG. 7 , a diagram illustrating power save multi-poll(PSMP) delivery is shown. PSMP is another scheduled power save mode,where the schedule is performed by the AP with multiple stations. Aswith the S-APSD mode, traffic patterns may need to be deterministic toleverage PSMP for saving power. In wireless network management(WNM)-sleep mode, the STA may request permission to enter the sleepmode. In order to receive group addressed traffic, an STA may optionallyindicate the actual wake-up time in a ‘WNM-Sleep-Interval’ field in theWNM-Sleep mode request frame.

In spatial multiplexing (SM) power save mode, an STA may operate withone receive chain throughout a session to save power (also referred toas static SM power save mode), or may have one receive chain active todetect data intended for receipt. If such data is detected, one or morereceive chains may be switched to active (e.g., a dynamic SM power savemode).

Referring now to FIG. 8 , a diagram illustrating a device power profilein LTE DRX mode is shown. FIG. 8 may show the power profile andsignaling activity of a duty cycled device. The device may be in one oftwo modes—active or sleep. When active, the device may consume P_(TX) intransmit mode and P_(RX) in receive mode. When in sleep mode, the devicepower may be dominated by the leakage power P_(LEAK) of its variousactive components. The device battery lifetime may depend primarily onhow often the unit transmits, and the size of the battery.

Referring now to FIGS. 9A-9B, diagrams illustrating battery life of anMTC device with different paging cycles are shown. FIG. 9A shows a 20year battery life achieved with 12 μW leakage power and 30 hour pagingcycle. FIG. 9A shows a 30 year battery life achieved with 8 μW leakagepower and 45 hour paging cycle.

Depending on the WTRUs transaction cycle (i.e., the average frequency atwhich the WTRU transmits data to the network), duty cycling has beenshown to extend the battery life of, for example, an MTC device toroughly 4 years. The results summarized in FIGS. 9A-9B may be for anexample device located at the cell edge and powered by two (e.g., 1.2 Vand 2.1 A) lithium AA-cell batteries. As shown in FIG. 9A, the leakagepower of the device in sleep mode may be assumed to be 12 μW. Thebattery life of an MTC device that transmits data infrequently (e.g.,transaction cycle of one hour or longer) may be limited by the pagingcycle. The maximum battery life for a paging cycle of 2.56 seconds maybe approximately 1 year. If the paging cycle is extended to 10.24seconds, the maximum achievable battery life may be approximately 4years.

FIG. 9A also illustrates that a very long paging cycle and a transactioncycle of approximately 30 hours may be required to achieve a 20 yearbattery life employing scheduling based network paging. In this example,the device battery life may be limited by the power dissipated in theslow reference clock and the leakage current of the various activeelectronic components in the device. Accordingly, an LTE MTC device inDRX mode may receive at most one page every 30 hours and send data backto the network at most once every 30 hours in order to achieve a 20 yearbattery life.

FIG. 9B shows that a 45 hour paging and transaction cycle may berequired to achieve a 30 year battery life if the leakage power isassumed to be 8 μW. This may result in very long latency that may not besuitable for many existing and emerging applications.

SigFox™ and LoRa™ are examples of proprietary low power and long rangeIoT solutions. If the number of transmissions is limited, the batterylifetime of a SigFox™ module may be very long. If the unit is used totransmit very seldom alarms, only a daily keep-alive message istransmitted, and one command message per day is received, then thebattery lifetime may be more than 10 years using three (e.g., 1.2 V and2.1 A) lithium AA-cell batteries. The lifetime may be 6 years usingthree (e.g., 1.2 V and 2.1 A) lithium AA-cell batteries transmitting 10times per day. LoRa™ devices may achieve similar battery life for theabove described SigFox™ operating conditions.

While duty cycling can extend the battery life of WTRUs, there can be aninherent energy-latency tradeoff associated with this type of approach.A longer paging cycle while reducing the energy consumption of the WTRUmay result in longer latency (i.e., the delay from when an entityattached to the network generates a packet for the WTRU to when the WTRUwakes up and is ready to receive the packet and respond with data).Alternatively, if the paging cycle is shortened to reduce latency thismay in turn shorten the battery life of the WTRU.

There may be many cases where it is desirable to deploy battery operateddevices for 20 years or more. It may be infeasible or impossible toservice these devices frequently to re-charge or replace the battery.Furthermore, while the average transaction cycle of these devices may bevery long, an on-demand (low latency) paging mechanism may be necessary.Therefore, new paging approaches that can break the energy-latencytradeoff associated with duty cycling are desirable.

Wakeup signal sequences including a power optimized waveform forwireless power delivery and a wakeup command employing a unique energysignature are disclosed. Broadcast, multicast or unicast wakeup commandsemploying a unique energy signature are provided where the unique energysignature may be constructed employing stored-energy threshold eventstacking, stored-energy quantizing and/or stored-energy threshold eventseparation encoding principles.

An end-to-end system employed by the disclosed paging procedures mayinclude an asset management entity, the core network and internet, oneor more eNodeBs (eNBs) or access points, one or more facilitators, oneor more devices, and a zero-energy RAN interface.

Referring now to FIGS. 10A-10B, diagrams a top level architecture of afacilitator and an interrogator are shown. The top level architecture ofa facilitator may include a primary transceiver (TRX), a processor unit,and an interrogator. The primary transceiver may be used to form one ormore wireless interfaces (e.g., Uu and PC5) with base stations, otherfacilitators, and devices.

The interrogator is used to from zero-energy interfaces with devicesequipped with passive transceivers. The interrogator may include atransmitter, a receiver, a carrier compensation unit (CCU), a frequencyand time reference unit (FTRU), and a processor. The transmitter andreceiver in the interrogator may use a circulator to access the antenna.The interrogator may transmit a sinusoidal pulse and examine abackscattered version of this pulse with its receiver. The CCU may beused for self-interference cancellation. The CCU may cancel a portion ofthe transmitted signal that leaks into the receiver due to finiteisolation between the transmitter and receiver in the interrogator. Theinterrogator may examine a pseudo-random modulated or criped sinusoidbackscattered from a passive device in order to determine the frequencyerror of the oscillator in the passive device.

Referring now to FIG. 11 , a top level radio architecture of a batteryoperated device is shown. The battery operated device may include one ormore primary active transceivers, one or more passive transceivers, amicrocontroller unit and memory, a frequency reference unit (FRU) andtime reference unit (TRU), a power management unit, and a battery.

Referring now to FIG. 12 , diagram illustrating a top level descriptionof a multi-mode and multi-band device is shown. The multi-mode andmulti-band device may include a multi-band (n frequency bands) cellulartransceiver, several (m) low power short range (e.g., IEEE 802.11,Bluetooth™, ZigBee™, etc.) transceivers and/or multi-input passivetransceivers. The passive transceiver may comply with existing standardslike near field communication (NFC), radio-frequency identification(RFID), or it may be a proprietary solution. In sleep mode, the devicemay shut down its cellular and low power transceivers. Alternatively,some or all of the low power transceivers may be left active while thecellular transceivers are shut down in sleep mode.

Referring now to FIG. 13A, a diagram illustrating an FDD device with asingle-band passive transceiver that may benefit from the disclosedpaging procedures is shown. The FDD device may include a duplexer. Theduplexer's receive output may be split in two by a switch. One of theswitch outputs may be connected to an active receiver while the otherswitch output may be connected to a passive transceiver. In sleep mode,the switch output may be left in position b and the active transceivermay be shut down.

Referring now to FIG. 13B, a diagram illustrating an FDD device with adual-band passive transceiver that may benefit from the disclosed pagingprocedures is shown. The dual-band passive transceiver may be integratedinto the RF front-end in. The FDD device may include a duplexer. In thisexample, both of the duplexer outputs may be split into two by switches.In sleep mode, switch 1 may be left in position ‘a’ and switch 2 may beleft in position ‘b’ while the active transceivers may be shut down.

Similar examples of a single-band half-duplex-FDD (HD-FDD) mode devicethat may benefit from the proposed paging procedures are illustrated inFIGS. 14A-14B.

Referring now to FIG. 14A, an HD-FF device with a single-band passivetransceiver is shown. In sleep mode, both switch 1 and switch 2 outputsmay be left in position ‘b’ while the active transceiver may be shutdown.

Referring now to FIG. 14B, an HD-FF device with a dual-band passivetransceiver integrated into the RF front-end is shown. In sleep mode,the switch 1 output may be left in either position, the switch 2 outputmay be in position ‘a,’ and the switch 3 output may be in position ‘b’while the active transceiver may be shut down.

Referring now to FIG. 15 , a diagram illustrating a single-band TDD modedevice that may benefit from the disclosed paging procedures is shown.In sleep mode, switch 1 and switch 2 outputs may be left in position ‘b’while the active transceiver may be shut down.

Referring now to FIG. 16A, a diagram illustrating a dual-band FDD devicethat may benefit from the disclosed paging procedures is shown. FIG. 16Ashows a dual-band FDD device integrating a dual-band passive transceiverinto the FDD receive paths It should be noted that a quad-band passivetransceiver may be integrated in the device shown in FIG. 16A employingthe methods described above.

Referring now to FIG. 16B, a diagram illustrating a single-band FDDdevice that may benefit from the disclosed paging procedures is shown.FIG. 16B shows a single band transmitter with dual-band downlink carrieraggregation. In other words, FIG. 16B shows an inter-band downlinkcarrier aggregation capable FDD device. A dual-band passive transceiveris shown in FIG. 16B, but it should be noted that a tri-band passivetransceiver may be integrated in the device shown in FIG. 16B employingthe methods described above.

The approaches described above are not radio access technology (RAT)specific. These approaches may be applied to devices employing cellular,802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee or any other RAT employing activetransceivers.

Referring now to FIG. 17 , a top level architecture of a passivereceiver (P-RX) is shown. The P-RX may include a single or multi-inputpassive front-end, a single or multi-input analog-to-information(A-to-I) converter and a single or multi-input command interpreter. Thepassive front-end may include a set of design parameters {n,ζ}. Theparameter n may be used to set the passive gain of the front-end. Theparameter ζ may be used to set an R-C time constant. The stored energythresholding based A-to-I converter may include multiplevoltage-to-pulse (V-to-P) converters. The A-to-I converter may have kinputs and k parameters {V_(TH1) . . . V_(THk)}. The A-to-I converter'soutput may be used by the command interpreter. The command interpreter's“success criteria” may be defined by the set of parameters {N₁ . . .N_(k)}. If the input signal set {P₁ . . . P_(k)} to the commandinterpreter satisfies the success criteria defined by its parameter set,the command interpreter then may generate an interrupt Y.

Referring now to FIGS. 18A-18B, diagrams illustrating implementations ofthe passive front-end are shown. FIG. 18A shows a simplified schematicof a single-ended architecture. FIG. 18B shows a simplified schematic ofa differential or balanced architecture. Each implementation may employa transformer with a turns ratio of 1:n. The transformer turns ratio maybe optimized to provide passive gain and input matching. A single diode(D1) or a pair of diodes (D1, D2) may be used to rectify the inputsignal r(t). The capacitor C_(SUPP) may be used as a supplementaryenergy storage element. The resistors R1, R2 may be used to ensure theproper impedance at the input port of the transformer T1. The resistorsR1, R2 together with the capacitor C_(SUPP) define the time constant ofthe passive front-end. The parameter set {n,ζ} may allow the selectionof the effective sensitivity level and reaction time of the passivefront-end.

Referring now to FIGS. 19A-19B, diagrams illustrating a possible set ofinput and output waveforms of the passive front-end are shown. Theoutput waveform V_(FE) may indicate the amount of energy that has beenstored in C_(SUPP) by the passive front-end. FIG. 19A shows the outputwaveform V_(FE) in response to a continuously persistent sinusoidalinput r(t). The time required (t_(TH)) for the output V_(FE) to reach adesired threshold voltage level V_(TH) for a given input signal r(t) maybe controlled by appropriately selecting the value of C_(SUPP). A largerC_(SUPP) may result in a larger t_(TH) for a given threshold voltageV_(TH). FIG. 19B shows the passive front-end's response to a pulsedsinusoid. If the capacitor C_(SUPP) (and associated circuitry) does notexhibit substantial loss, then the output V_(FE) can be made to reach adesired threshold voltage V_(TH) in response to a pulse sinusoid. Whenan input r(t) is present, the output voltage V_(FE) may riseproportionately to the input signal amplitude. When the input is notpresent, V_(FE) may be held at a near constant value until the inputappears again.

Referring now to FIG. 20A, a diagram illustrating an implementation ofthe analog-to-information (A-to-I) converter is shown. The A-to-Iconverter may include a storage element C_(SUPP), a comparator withhysteresis, and a shunting switch at the input of the comparator that iscontrolled by the comparator output logic level.

Referring now to FIG. 20B, diagrams illustrating the A-to-I converter'sinput and output waveforms are shown. When the input voltage V_(FE) onthe positive terminal of the comparator exceeds the threshold voltageV_(TH) on the negative terminal of the comparator by the hysteresisamount, the output (P) of the comparator may transition from logic lowto logic high. This may close the shunting switch attached to thepositive input terminal of the comparator thereby emptying the storagecapacitor C_(SUPP) and reducing V_(FE) below V_(TH). The amount by whichthe input voltage is reduced below V_(TH) may also be set to thecomparator hysteresis. As a result, the comparator may generate a pulseat its output every time the voltage at its input exceeds V_(TH). Thewidth of the generated pulse may be set by the comparator's hysteresisvoltage.

Referring now to FIG. 21 , a diagram illustrating an A-to-I converterwith an automatic sensitivity control mechanism is shown. The comparatorthreshold voltage V_(TH) may be a superposition of V_(FE) and V_(REF).When the voltage V_(FE) across C_(SUPP) is large, a portion of thisvoltage added to V_(REF) may increase the trip point of the comparatorthereby reducing the sensitivity of the A-to-I converter. When V_(FE) issmall, V_(TH) may be essentially dropped to V_(REF) thereby increasingthe sensitivity of the A-to-I converter.

Referring now to FIGS. 22A-22B, alternative examples of the A-to-Iconverter are shown. FIG. 22A shows a single-ended implementation. Anoutput (P) of the comparator is initially assumed to be in logic lowstate and, as a result, Switch 51 may be closed and Switch S2 open. Oncethe input voltage V_(FE) exceeds the threshold voltage V_(TH), theoutput P may transition from logic low to logic high thereby openingswitch 51 and closing switch S2. In contrast to the implementationsshown above, the energy stored in the supplementary storage elementC_(SUPP) may be transferred to a primary storage element C_(PRIM), whereC_(PRIM) may be much larger than C_(SUPP). If the voltage on C_(PRIM) issmaller than V_(TH), the voltage at the positive terminal of thecomparator may be reduced below V_(TH) thereby returning the output P tologic low. FIG. 22B shows a fully differential or balancedimplementation of this type of A-to-I converter.

Referring to FIG. 23 , a diagram illustrating an alternativeimplementation of the A-to-I converter is shown. The voltage V_(FE) maybe quantized into k levels using k comparator with k different thresholdvoltages (V_(TH1), V_(TH2), . . . V_(THk)). The A-to-I converter mayproduce k outputs (P₁, P₂, . . . P_(k)) to approximate V_(FE).

Referring now to FIG. 24 , a diagram illustrating another schematic ofthe P-RX is shown. The P-RX may contain of one or more inputs (e.g., ak-input P-RX). The P-RX may include k passive front-ends and k A-to-Iconverters. One or more diode rectifiers in the k passive front-ends maytogether drive a single storage capacitor C_(SUPP) followed by a singleV-to-P converter in the message decoder.

Referring now to FIG. 25 , a diagram of a passive transceiver (P-TRX) isshown. The P-TRX may include a single or multiple antennas, amultiplexer, a single to multiple passive receivers, a single ormultiple load banks, a controller and digital-to-analog converter(CU&D/A) unit, a frequency and time reference unit (FTRU), and/or asingle or multiple modulation waveform generators.

The m-to-N multiplexer (MUX) may have m inputs (x₁ . . . x_(m)), Noutputs (y₁ . . . y_(N)) and a control port C. The control port C may beused to connect the m inputs of the MUX to m out of N outputs of theMUX. The P-TRX may receive an un-modulated sinusoid on one or multipleantennas. In response, the passive receiver may generate an interrupt tothe CU&D/A unit indicating that an RF field has been detected. Thepassive receiver may employ stored energy thresholding principles togenerate the interrupt. The CU&D/A in response may activate the FTRU andthe FTRU may activate a clock signal and send the clock signal to theload modulation waveform generator (LMWFG). The passive receiver maygenerate a second interrupt to activate the load modulation waveformgenerator (LMWFG). Once the LMWFG receives an activation signal from thepassive receiver and a clock from the FTRU unit, the LMWFG in turn mayapply a modulation waveform to the control port C of the MUX therebyconnecting the antennas to different loads in the load bank. This mayamplitude modulate the sinusoid backscattered from the P-TRX. The LMWFGmay generate a sinusoid, a square wave, a pseudo-random sequence orchirped sequence to create different backscatter patterns.

Referring now to FIGS. 26A-26B, diagrams illustrating a pulse countingwakeup command interpreter are shown. FIG. 26A shows stored energythresholding event counting wakeup command interpreter (ET-CI) for asingle input RT-WURX. FIG. 26B shows a stored ET-CI for a multi-inputRT-WURX. The ET-CI may include a counter and a combinatorial logicblock. The combinatorial logic block may perform a comparison betweenits two inputs C[m:0] and N. When the (m+1) bit counter output C[m:0]reaches a count equal to N, the combinatorial logic block may set itsoutput Y to logic high.

Referring now to FIGS. 27A-27B, diagrams illustrating the operation of asingle input ET-CI. FIG. 27A shows an ET-CI configured for 2 thresholdevents from an A-to-I convertor. Once N=2 consecutive pulses at theoutput of the A-to-I are detected, the ET-CI may transition its output Yfrom logic low to logic high thereby generating an interrupt. FIG. 27Bshows an ET-CI configured for 3 threshold events. Once N=3 consecutivepulses at the output of the A-to-I are detected, the ET-CI maytransition its output Y from logic low to logic high thereby generatingan interrupt.

The A-to-I converter threshold voltage (V_(TH)) and the threshold eventcounter's target number of events (N) may be used to optimize thedetection and false alarm probability of the RT-WURX. As an example,setting both V_(TH) and N to high values will render the RT-WURX robustto noise and thereby reduce false alarms. However, more energy will beneeded to trigger a wakeup interrupt with such a configuration.

A stored energy quantizing wakeup command interpreter may examine adigital bit sequence. The digital bit sequence may be generated by ananalog-to-information converter in the passive receiver frontend. Thestored energy quantizing command interpreter may generate an interruptif the bit sequence received from the passive receiver frontend matchesa pre-determined code.

Referring now to FIGS. 28A-28C, diagrams of a stored energy thresholdevent separation decoding wakeup command interpreter (ETESD-CI) for asingle-input and multi-input RT-WURX are shown. The ETESD-CI may includetwo major blocks, the pulse separation decoding (PSD) data detector andthe decision logic. The PSD data detector is shown in FIG. 28A. A singleinput ETESD-CI is shown in FIG. 28B, and a three-input ETESD-CI is shownin FIG. 28C.

The PSD data detector illustrated in FIG. 28A may include a counter anda multi-bit latch. The counter clock (CLK) frequency may be setsignificantly (e.g., 10×) higher than the expected minimum separationbetween consecutive pulses P from the Analog-to-information converter.The pulse P may be used to save the counter value into the latch andthen reset the counter. Successive outputs W of the latch provide ascaled numerical measure of the time separation between successiveincoming pulses P. This information can be used by the data detector.

The data detector includes two programmable parameters C0 and C1.According to an embodiment, the operating principal of the data detectoris described below in equation 1. The decision logic block may have oneprogrammable parameter N. Its output may be initialized to logic low andtransition to logic high when the PSD data detector output bit pattern Xmatches N.

$\begin{matrix}{X = \left\{ \begin{matrix}{0,{{{when}W} > C_{0}}} \\{1,{{{when}W} < C_{1}}} \\{C_{0} > C_{1}}\end{matrix} \right.} & {{Equation}1}\end{matrix}$

Referring now to FIG. 29 , a diagram illustrating the operation of asingle input ETESD-CI is shown. Signal r(t), V_(th) and P are associatedwith the wakeup receiver's passive front-end and the A-to-I converter.Signals X and Y are associated with the ETESD command interpreter.

The ETESD-CI may require a start sequence (e.g., 111) to begin thewakeup command interpretation process. Once the start sequence isdetected, the measured time separation between successive pulses P maybe used to decode the data. If the measured separation betweensuccessive pulses P is less than C1, this may be interpreted as a binarybit of value 1. If the measured separation between successive pulses Pis greater than C0, this may be interpreted as a binary bit of value 0.Once the programmed bit pattern N (e.g., 01100) is received by thedecision logic block, its output may be transitioned from logic low tologic high thereby generating an interrupt.

Referring now to FIG. 30 , a diagram illustrating a resource cube usedto construct a wakeup word is shown. The network may employ all or asubset of elements (angle, frequency, time) in the resource cube toconstruct a wakeup signal sequence. The wakeup signal sequence mayinclude a power optimized waveform and a wakeup command employing aunique energy signature.

The frequency resources may include a mix of carriers and sub-carries.The carriers may be contained in a single frequency band or in multiplefrequency bands. The network may employ one or more unmodulated carrieror traditional carrier modulation techniques such as on-off keying(OOK), binary phase-shifted keying (BPSK), quadrature phase-shiftedkeying (QPSK), quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), or the like, totransmit the wakeup command. Unique energy signature methods such asstored energy quantization (SEQ), stored energy threshold event stacking(SET) or stored energy threshold event separation encoding (SETES)schemes may also be used to transmit a wakeup command. One or moremethods may be combined to create hybrid methods for transmitting awakeup command.

The network may generate broadcast, multicast or unicast wakeup commandsto wake-up all devices, groups of devices or individual devices in acoverage area. Multiple base stations may be instructed to collaboratewhen transmitting a wakeup command.

A broadcast wakeup command may be constructed with a single or multifrequency SEQ, SET, or SETES command. Multiple SEQ, SET, and SETEScommands may be combined to create a compound wakeup command. Alldevices in the coverage area may be programmed to respond to the samesimple or compound wakeup command and the wakeup command may betransmitted in an omnidirectional manner to wake-up all devices in thecoverage area. According to an embodiment, a network may be partitionedinto several spatial sectors and the same broadcast command may betransmitted in each angular direction using beamforming.

A multicast wakeup command may be constructed with a single or multifrequency SEQ, SET, or SETES command. Multiple SEQ, SET, and SETEScommands may be combined to create a compound wakeup command. Thenetwork may be partitioned into several spatial sectors and the samecommand may be transmitted in a particular sector or a subset of sectorsto wakeup different groups of devices. Alternatively, a multicast wakeupcommand may include a preamble and a body. The preamble may be a groupidentifier and the body may be the wakeup command for all devices in thecoverage area. The preamble may be constructed using a SEQ or SETcommand and the body may be constructed using a SETES command.

A unicast wakeup command may be constructed with a single or multifrequency SEQ, SET, or SETES command. Multiple SEQ, SET, and SETEScommands may be combined to create a compound wakeup command. Thenetwork may be partitioned into several spatial sectors and each sectormay contain only one device. The same command may be transmitted in aparticular sector to wake-up a particular device. Alternatively, aunicast wakeup command may include a preamble and a body. The preamblemay be a group identifier and the body may be the wakeup command for aparticular device in the group. The preamble may be constructed using aSEQ or SET command and the body may be constructed using a SETEScommand.

Referring now to FIG. 31 , a diagram illustrating a transmitterstructure that may be used to generate a wakeup command is shown. Amodulation generator may be used to map wakeup command bits onto OFDMsubcarriers that may be designated for use by the wakeup command. Themodulation generator may employ a scaled superposition of the designatedsubcarriers to realize a wakeup signal with the desired time-domainproperties.

Referring now to FIGS. 32A-32D, diagrams illustrating a wakeup wordutilizing a single frequency resource (f₁) and up to L=9 time resourcesare shown. The strength of word employing L time resources may rangefrom 1/L to 1. FIG. 32A shows a symbolic representation of a 3/9thstrength f₁ word. This may be referred to as a ( 3/9, f₁) word. Theunderlying time domain waveform of the ( 3/9, f₁) word depicted in FIG.32A is shown in FIG. 33C. FIGS. 32B and 32D illustrate a (1, f1) wakeupword.

Referring now to FIGS. 33A-33B, diagrams illustrating implementations ofa ( 3/9, f₁) wakeup word are shown. The time resources in a wakeup worddo not need to be contiguously arranged.

Referring now to FIGS. 34A-34B, diagrams illustrating wakeup wordsutilizing multiple frequency and time resources are shown. FIG. 34Ashows a word employing a ( 3/9, f1) and a (1, fk) frequency-timeresource combination. This may be referred to as a {( 3/9, f1), (1, fk)}word. FIG. 34B shows a {( 3/9, f1), ( 4/9, f2), (1, fk)} word.

Referring now to FIGS. 35A-35B, diagrams illustrating a wakeup wordutilizing j angle resources, k frequency resources and up to L timeresources are shown. FIG. 35A shows a word employing an identicalcombination of time and frequency resources ( 3/9, f₁) and (1, f₂) ontwo different angle resources θ₁ and θ₂. This may be referred to as a[{θ₁, ( 3/9, f₁)}, {θ₂, (1, f₂)}] word. FIG. 35B shows a [{θ₁, (⅗, f₁)},{θ₂, ( 4/9, f₁), (1, f₂)}] word.

Referring now to FIGS. 36A-36B, diagrams illustrating an (L, m, k, N)wakeup command structure are shown. A stored-energy threshold eventstacking wakeup command may employ an (N, m, k, L) combination ofresources. The wakeup command may be constructed using N identical wordsemploying m angle resources, k frequency resources, and L time resourcesper word. FIG. 36A shows a wakeup command employing 4-word (N=4), singleangle (m=1), single frequency (k=1) and five time resources (L=5) perword. This may be referred to as a (4, 1, 1, 5) wakeup command. FIG. 36Bshows a (3, 1, 2, 9) stored-energy threshold event stacking wakeupcommand employing N=3 words, m=1 angle, k=2 frequencies and L=9 timeresources per word.

The number of words N in a wakeup message may correspond to the numberof threshold events needed to trigger an interrupt in the target device.The number of time resources L per word may correspond to the range ofenergy (1/L to 1) that may be transmitted by a base station orcombination of base stations. The duration of each time resource withina word may be a full frame or a sub frame in an LTE system. The wakeupcommand may, for example, employ resource blocks in the LTE controlplane or data plane. The words within a wakeup command may, for example,be mapped on top of paging occasions in an LTE system.

A stored-energy quantization based wakeup command may employ an (m, k,L) combination of resources. The wakeup command may employ N distinctwords corresponding to each of the N quantization level where m angleresources, k frequency resources and L time resources are used per word.

Referring now to FIGS. 37A-37D, diagrams illustrating stored-energyquantization based wakeup commands where 4 quantization levels areimplemented are shown. Each of the 4 words may employ a single angleresource, a single frequency resource, and 8 time resources. The lowestquantization level may be implemented using 1 time resource out of 8 andmay have a strength of ⅛. The time resource may be located anywhere inthe word. The highest quantization level may be implemented using all 8time resources and may have a strength of 1.

Referring now to FIG. 38 , a diagram illustrating a time domainrepresentation of a constant-energy amplitude modulated waveform used togenerate stored-energy threshold event separation decoding wakeupcommands is shown. The constant-energy amplitude modulated waveform maybe mapped to a single word or to multiple consecutive words. The examplewaveform may encode a binary sequence 01. The waveform may begin with astart sequence followed by a sinusoid of amplitude A0 and duration T0used to encode a binary bit of value 0 and a sinusoid of amplitude A1and duration T1 used to encode a binary bit of value 1.

The criteria for selecting the amplitude and duration parameter pair{Ai,Ti} to encode binary values 0 and 1 is described below in equation2. The two sinusoids encoding binary value 0 and 1 may have the sameenergy.

A ₀ ² T ₀ =A ₁ ² T ₁  Equation 2

As an example, the desired time separation between pulses to encodebinary bit value 0 may be three times that of binary bit value 1. Oncethe amplitude and duration pair {A1,T1} representing binary bit value 1is selected, the amplitude A0 required to encode binary bit value 0 maybe calculated by setting T0=3T1, and using equation 2.

A network transmitting a signal sequence including a power optimizedwaveform and a broadcast, multicast, or unicast wakeup command with aunique energy signature is described herein. A device and technique forreceiving a broadcast, multicast or unicast wakeup command with apassive receiver and interpreting the wakeup command by generatingstored-energy threshold events in accordance with the unique energysignature embedded in the wakeup command by transferring charge from itstemporary storage element to its battery is also described herein.

A network transmitting an interrogation command to determine the stateof a device (e.g., its frequency offset) is described herein. Theinterrogation command may include, for example, an un-modulated carrier.The network may determine the state (e.g., frequency offset) of a deviceby examining the pseudo-random sequence modulated backscatter from thedevice's passive transceiver. The network may transmit a frequencycorrection command with a unique energy signature. A device may receivea frequency correction command with a passive receiver, interpret aunique energy signature and make adjustments to its time and frequencyreference unit.

Referring now to FIG. 39 , a diagram illustrating elements of a networkinitiated on-demand zero-energy paging system is shown. The system mayinclude one or more of an asset management entity, the core network andinternet, one or more eNBs or access points, one or more facilitators,one or more devices, and a zero-energy RAN interface.

The system may utilize a single radio access technology (RAT) ormultiple RATs. This includes cellular (LTE), 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee,NFC, RFID and the like. The facilitator may be an eNB, an access point,a remote radio head, or a WTRU. A connected appliance, a connectedconsumer electronic device or any other connected device with wirelesscommunication capability may also function as a facilitator. Thefacilitator may be stationary or be capable of mobility. The zero-energyRAN interface may be unidirectional (downlink) or bi-directional (uplinkand downlink). The zero-energy link may be realized by transmittingradio signals with unique energy signatures from eNBs, access points,facilitators, or the like, and by employing passive receivers usingstored-energy thresholding methods via the devices to interpret commandscarried by the radio signals.

Referring now to FIG. 40 , a diagram illustrating the on-demandzero-energy paging procedure is shown. Once deployed, a device may entera sleep mode. The paging procedure may be triggered by a network event.For example, an asset management entity may requests data from a device.The active receiver in the device may not be turned on during theon-demand zero-energy paging procedure. In addition to the wakeupcommand, a synchronization signal and UL configuration information maybe received by the device using its passive receiver. The details of theproposed on-demand paging procedure are outlined below. Althoughprovided as a list, it should be understood that these procedures may beimplemented in any applicable order, one or more of the outlined stepsmay be omitted, and one or more steps may be added to the procedure.

In step 1, the network may instruct a first eNB (eNB1) to interrupt thesleep cycle of the device. The network may specify the priority level ofthe interrupt that is to be implemented. According to this example, eNB1may be the eNodeB with which the device is currently registered. eNB1computes the parameters (e.g., waveform type, power level, duration,frequency bands, etc.) of the wakeup command based on the specifiedinterrupt level. eNB1 may determine if it needs to collaborate with oneor more additional eNBs (e.g., eNB2, eNB3, etc.) or facilitators, inorder to implement the required interrupt type.

In step 2, eNB1 may configure the facilitator (e.g., the sidelink). eNB1may send parameters of the portion of the wakeup command to beimplemented by the facilitator. eNB1 may receive confirmation from thefacilitator.

In step 3, eNB1 may send parameters of the portion of the wakeup commandto be implemented by eNB2 and may receive confirmation from eNB2.

In step 4, eNB1 may send parameters of the portion of the wakeup commandto be implemented by eNB3 and may receive confirmation from eNB3.

In step 5, eNB1 may transmit its portion of the wakeup command.

In step 6, the facilitator may consecutively or simultaneously transmitits portion of the wakeup command.

In step 7, eNB2 may consecutively or simultaneously transmit its portionof the wakeup command.

In step 8, eNB3 may consecutively or simultaneously transmit its portionof the wakeup command.

In step 9, the facilitator may wait a predetermined amount of time andmay transmit the zero-energy synchronization signal. The facilitator mayexamine the signal backscattered from the device's passive transceiverand may determines the frequency error of the device's frequencyreference unit. The facilitator may transmit a signal containing thefrequency correction instruction and the uplink configurationinformation.

In step 10, the device may use its passive transceiver to interpretsignals received from the eNodeBs and the facilitator. The device mayturn on its primary active transmitter and may send data back to thenetwork.

Referring now to FIGS. 41A-42B, diagrams illustrating a signal exchangebetween the device and the eNodeBs and facilitators are shown. FIG. 41Ashows eNodeB and facilitator signals. FIG. 41B shows device signals. Thepower profiles of the eNBs, facilitator and the device are also depictedin FIG. 41 . The signal power levels associated with the steps above areindicated with the same numerical designation in FIG. 41 .

Referring now to FIG. 42 , a diagram illustrating a hybrid pagingprocedure is shown. The network may implement an over-the-air interruptdriven on-demand adaptation of the device's (e.g., DRX mode) duty cycleperiod for high priority paging provisioning. The device may receive aDRX cycle configuration information from the network. In order to savepower, the device may program its sleep counter with a long duty cycleperiod based on the DRX cycle configuration information received fromthe network. The device may then enter sleep mode. In normal operation,the network may only page the device on the agreed upon paging occasionsdefined by the paging cycle. The device sleep counter may besynchronized with the network's counter and the device may only wake upto decode paging messages during the programmed paging occasions.

The paging cycle adaptation procedure may be triggered by a networkevent. For example, an asset management entity may request data from adevice. The asset management entity may indicate a priority level or aquality-of-service level. If the requested priority level is set tohigh, the network computes the time remaining (delay) until the nextpaging occasion. If the computed delay meets the requested level ofservice, the network may wait until the next scheduled paging occasionto page the device. If the computed delay does not meet the requestedlevel of service, the network may initiate the paging cycle adaptationprocedure. The details of such a paging cycle period adaptationprocedure are outlined below.

Although provided as a list, it should be understood that theseprocedures may be implemented in any applicable order, one or more ofthe outlined steps may be omitted, and one or more steps may be added tothe procedure.

In step 1, the network may instruct a first eNodeB (eNB1) to interruptthe sleep cycle of the device. The network may specify the prioritylevel of the interrupt that is to be implemented. eNB1 may be the eNodeBwith which the device is currently registered. eNB1 may compute theparameters (e.g., waveform type, power level, duration, frequency bands,etc.) of the required over-the-air (OTA) interrupt signal based on thespecified interrupt level. eNB1 may determine if it needs to collaboratewith one or more eNodeBs (e.g., eNB2 and eNB3) in order to implement therequired interrupt type.

In step 2, eNB1 may send parameters of the portion of the OTA-interruptsignal to be implemented by eNB2 and may receive confirmation from eNB2.

In step 3, eNB1 may send parameters of the portion of the OTA-interruptsignal to be implemented by eNB3 and may receive confirmation from eNB3.

In step 4, eNB1 may transmit its portion of the OTA-interrupt signal.The device may receive the OTA-interrupt signal with its passivereceiver.

In step 5, eNB2 may consecutively or simultaneously transmit its portionof the OTA-interrupt signal. The device may receive the OTA-interruptsignal with its passive receiver.

In step 6, eNB3 may consecutively or simultaneously transmit its portionof the OTA-interrupt signal. The device may receive the OTA-interruptsignal with its passive receiver. The device may turn on its primaryactive receiver.

In step 7, eNB1 may wait a predetermined amount of time and may transmita synchronization signal. The device may receive the synchronizationsignal with its primary active receiver.

In step 8, eNB1 may transmit the uplink configuration information. Thedevice may receive the signal containing the uplink configurationinformation with its primary active receiver.

In step 9, the device may turn on its primary active transmitter and maytransmit data back to the network.

Referring now to FIGS. 43A-43B, diagrams illustrating a signal exchangebetween the device and the eNodeBs are shown. FIG. 43A shows eNodeBpower profile and signals. FIG. 43B shows device power profiles andsignals. The signal power levels associated with the numbered stepsabove are indicated with the same numerical designation in FIG. 43 .FIG. 43A illustrates the Tx and Rx based power consumption by thenetwork components eNB1, eNB2, eNB3, as associated with the stepsoutlined above. FIG. 43B illustrates the Tx and Rx based powerconsumption by the WTRU as associated with the steps outlined above.

In implementing the OTA-interrupt, the PeNB and the SeNBs maycollaborate in a manner where the SeNBs transmit an additive amount ofpower on the same frequency as depicted in FIGS. 43A-43B. The SeNBs mayalso transmit portions of the OTA-interrupt signal on different carrierfrequencies.

Referring now to FIG. 44 , a diagram illustrating a zero-energy wakeupprocedure is shown. A device may include one or multiple primary activetransceivers (TRXs), one or multiple passive receivers, a powermanagement unit (PMU) and a battery. The passive receiver may include arectifier illustrated by diode D1 and resistor R1, a temporary storageelement illustrated by capacitor C1, and analog-to-information A2Iconverter (comparator) and a wakeup command interpreter.

The network may transmit a signal sequence including a power optimizedwaveform (POW) and a broadcast, multicast or unicast wakeup command witha unique energy signature. The POW may for example include asingle-frequency or multi-frequency sinusoidal pulses. The wakeupcommand with a unique energy signature may be constructed, for example,using stored-energy event stacking, stored-energy event quantizing orstored-energy event separation encoding principles.

The device may harvest energy from the POW and the wakeup command in thetransmitted signal sequence. The harvested energy may be stored in atemporary storage element (capacitor C1). This stored energy may be usedto power the A2I and the wakeup command interpreter in the device'spassive receiver.

The device may receive a broadcast, multicast or unicast wakeup commandwith its passive receiver and interpret the wakeup command by generatingstored-energy threshold events in accordance with the unique energysignature embedded in the wakeup command by transferring charge from itstemporary storage element to its battery. The device may monitor theamount of stored energy in its temporary storage element (capacitor C1)with its A2I converter in its passive receiver. If the amount of energyor charge stored as indicated by the voltage V_(FE) in the temporarystorage element (capacitor C1) exceeds a pre-determined threshold, theA2I converter may transfer this stored charge from the temporary storageelement to the battery thereby emptying the temporary storage elementand reducing the voltage V_(FE) below the threshold. The A2I maygenerate a pulse P at its output each time a charge transfer takesplace.

Depending on the structure of the wakeup command, this process of chargetransfer may be repeated several times. The wakeup command interpretermay examine the pulse train P and if the pulse train matches the patternthat was assigned to the device by the network, the wakeup commandinterpreter generates an interrupt Y. Upon receiving the interrupt Y,the power management unit (PMU) may generate a wakeup signal WU used toactivate the devices primary transceiver (TRX). The A2I converterthreshold voltage V_(TH) and the pulse pattern P may be configured bythe network before the device enters sleep mode.

Range extension procedures may be employed by the network to wakeuptarget devices that may experience significant signal qualitydegradation such as devices that are far away or behind an obstacle.Range extension may be accomplished by beam forming and/or increasingthe power and/or duration of the constituent words in a wakeup command.The required power and/or time duration for a device may be derived froman estimate of the path loss reported by the device before it enterssleep mode. Alternatively, the network may step through a set of powerand time duration settings to implement an energy ramping procedure. Thenetwork may implement a blind ramping procedure where it steps throughmultiple or all power and/or time duration setting. The network may alsoimplement a ramping procedure with feedback such that the network waitsa pre-configured amount of time after every power and time durationsetting. If the device responds with a wakeup acknowledgement duringthis pre-configured window the network may terminate the rampingprocedure.

According to an embodiment of the disclosed subject matter, a procedurefor wakeup command false alarm suppression may be implemented. Robustwakeup commands may be implemented to prevent scenarios where a devicein sleep mode spuriously wakes up (causing false alarms) in response toambient RF energy in the environment caused by unrelated transmissions.Employing multi-angle and multi-frequency words when constructing awakeup command may reduce false alarms. Employing compound wakeupcommands such as a stored-energy threshold event stacking commandcombined with a stored-energy threshold event separation encoding wakeupcommand may also mitigate false alarms. The device may make, forexample, path loss measurements and inform the network. Based on thereported measurement, the network may determine the level of false alarmmitigation needed and configure the device appropriately before itenters sleep mode.

A procedure for pseudo-random backscattering zero-energy synchronizationmay be implemented. Frequency and timing synchronization is a procedurethat reduces the frequency and timing offsets between two nodes toenable an acceptable communication link. One of the nodes or anothernode (e.g., GPS signals) may be used as the reference to reduce bothfrequency and timing offsets.

A procedure, a method, and an apparatus that utilizes backscatteringbased zero-energy wakeup confirmation and synchronization procedure maybe described herein. A node transmitting the wakeup command may alsodetermine the frequency offset of the intended or target device andassist setting up timing synchronization. The transmitting node (orinterrogator) may determine frequency offset by using a pseudo-randomsequence modulated backscattered tone from the target device's passivetransceiver (TRX). The modulated backscattered tone may reflect the mainVCO offset at the target device. The transmitting node may also sendtime stamps that may determine frame, slot, and/or symbol timing inreference to the wakeup sequence timing.

The target devices may get their particular wake-up codes or sequencesas part of an initial device discovery process. Alternatively or inaddition, the necessary information for wake-up procedures such asunique wake-up energy signature with other parameters for the passiveTRX may be signaled by the network and received by the target devicesvia the active TRX prior to the sleep procedure activation. Thenecessary parameters such as a pseudo-random code index may also be sentto a particular device ID after a common wakeup energy sequence. Thedevice ID may be assigned a priori or during initial network attachmentprocedure.

Referring now to FIG. 45 , a diagram illustrating a backscattered andmodulated carrier is shown. During the wake-up process, a nodetransmitting wakeup commands may estimate the initial frequency offsetof the passive TRX in the target device. The interrogator's receiver mayexploit backscattering techniques to determine initial frequency offsetof the passive TRX in the target device where the reception of wakeupcommand with a unique energy signature may trigger the transmission of apseudo-random (PN) code.

Referring now to FIG. 46 , a diagram illustrating a detection procedureis shown. When a device specific wake-up command is detected, thepassive TRX may start generating the PN sequence that modulates theback-scattered carrier. The back-scattered modulated carrier may reflectthe target devices' frequency and time reference unit (FTRU) frequencyoffset. The FTRU may be used as the reference clock source by bothpassive TRX and the active TRX in the target device. The reference clockoffset may be controlled by the FTRU.

Once the interrogator transmits the wake-up command, it may startreceiving the device specific wakeup confirmation by means of PN codedetection. The interrogator may have a priori knowledge about theexpected PN sequence for each device. When the interrogator successfullydetects the expected PN code, the wake-up process may be confirmed to besuccessful. During the PN code reception, the interrogator may estimatethe initial frequency offset of the passive TRX in the target device.The estimated offset may be signaled back to the passive TRX to correctFTRU reference clock offset. The frequency correction procedure mayutilize open or close loop approaches and may exchange multiple messagesbetween the interrogator and the passive TRX in the target device. Theinterrogator may also send time references with respect to active TRXalong with the estimated frequency offsets.

The PN sequence detection and frequency offset estimation algorithms mayutilize parallel processing units to expedite the detection andestimation processes. Also, a single processing unit may be utilizedover multiple offset setting with iterations to determine the initialfrequency offset to trade off the complexity. This tradeoff may,however, increase detection and estimation latency.

Referring now to FIG. 47 , a diagram illustrating a frequency offsetestimator is shown. A method to estimate the frequency offset may employtwo PN sequences (i.e., the same or different sequences with same ordifferent lengths) where the passive TRX may modulate the back-scatteredcarrier with the two PN sequences. In the case of AWGN channel only, theinterrogator may determine two peaks with two complex numbers for eachPN sequence. The frequency offset may be estimated by taking the phasedifference between the two complex numbers, and then dividing the resultby the time difference of the peak locations multiplied by a normalizingcoefficient, as shown in FIG. 47 . The process may be initiated by thelast know offset value that may be kept in non-volatile memory.

The matched filter (MF) may be designed for the PN sequence. The outputof MF may be passed through a power convertor, and then integrated overN iterations where N may be from 1 to a particular number. Once theintegration period is over, a maximum element and its location may bedetermined and compared to a threshold. If the threshold is met, the PNsequence detection may be successful. The detection process may be proneto large initial frequency offsets and, therefore, artificially shiftedinput samples may be used at different frequency offsets with phaserotation only or phase rotation and timing drift, to guaranteedetection. The process may be performed in parallel with multiple HWunits to expedite the detection process. When the detection process iscompleted, the peak location may be associated as a “max index”. Thesample extractor may take samples as depicted in FIG. 47 .

A range extension procedure may be used by the interrogating node towake up devices either far away or behind an obstacle with significantsignal quality degradation. The node may set up a timer to wait for anexpected response from a targeted device starting from the transmissionof a wakeup command. If an expected response is not received by theinterrogator, it may start deploying extended range procedures for PNsequence detection and frequency offset estimations.

When enough energy is harvested by a device and when and a device wakeupcommand is detected, the received tone may be continuously modulatedwith its predefined or network instructed PN sequence. The device,associated with a PN sequence, may be known by the interrogator nodeprior to performing a PN sequence detection process. The interrogatornodes may accumulate MF outputs after the power conversion block, asshown in FIG. 46 , over T periods, where T is the length of the PNsequence and, determine the peak value and its index location (e.g.index may vary from 0 to T−1). The peak value may be compared to aparticular threshold to keep the false alarm rate under a target value.The threshold may be set differently for each number of integrationperiods. The integration buffer may be reset after a number ofintegration (N). Once the peak is determined to be above the threshold,the detection may occur.

In the case that the detection occurs only after N integration, theinterrogator may use the frequency offset estimation by averaging Nresults before sending it to the target device with increased processinggain that may be equivalent to N integration or better. The device maybe informed about the format as part of initial device attachment,factory default, and/or parameters provided before entering a sleepmode. The interrogator may also indicate the range extension format byencoding predefined fields. The device may look for normal or rangeextension mode formats and decode them in parallel.

The network may transmit a signal sequence consisting of a poweroptimized waveform and a broadcast, multicast, or unicast wakeup commandwith a unique energy signature.

A device may receive the broadcast, multicast, or unicast wakeup commandwith a passive receiver and may interpret the wakeup command bygenerating stored-energy threshold events in accordance with the uniqueenergy signature embedded in the wakeup command by transferring chargefrom its temporary storage element to its battery.

The network may transmit an interrogation command to determine the stateof a device (e.g., its frequency offset). The interrogation command mayinclude an unmodulated carrier. The network may determine the state(e.g., frequency offset) of a device by examining the pseudo-randomsequence modulated backscatter from the device's passive transceiver.The network may transmit a frequency correction command with a uniqueenergy signature.

The device may receive a frequency correction command with a passivereceiver. The device may interpret a unique energy signature and maymake adjustments to its time and frequency reference unit.

In addition to, or as an alternative to, the standard methods fortransmitting system information, the network may broadcast a trackingarea update (TAU) command utilizing a specialized radio beacon with aunique energy signature. The TAU command may employ a frame structurethat includes a preamble and a body. The TAU command frame body may, forexample, contain a tracking area code (TAC). The network may employ allor a subset of elements (angle, frequency, time) in the resource cubewhen broadcasting a TAU command. The frequency resources may include amix of carriers and sub-carries. The carriers may be contained in asingle frequency band or in multiple frequency bands. SEQ, SET, or SETESmethods may be used to construct the radio beacon. The network may alsocombine multiple methods to create hybrid methods when constructing thebeacon used to broadcast the TAU command. The beacon may be constructedwith a single or multi frequency SEQ, SET, or SETES methods. The networkmay broadcast TAU commands from one, a few or all eNBs in a trackingarea (TA). This may be done in a periodic manner or at random intervals.

In addition to, or as an alternative to, the standard methods foraccessing system information, a device may receive a TAU command with apassive receiver and interpret a unique energy signature to accesssystem information (e.g. TAC). The device may employ stored energyquantization, stored energy threshold event counting or stored energythreshold event separation decoding methods to interpret a unique energysignature. These methods may be used in a stand-alone manner or combinedto create hybrid methods for interpreting a unique energy signature. Adevice may employ a look-up table (LUT) based approach to trigger atracking area update (TAU) procedure. The device may store a trackingarea list (TAL) representing its current known location in an LUT. TheTAL-LUT may be stored in local memory and may be accessible while thedevice is in sleep mode. The device may access system information usinga passive receiver while in active or in sleep mode. Once the systeminformation (e.g. TAC) has been retrieved, the retrieved TAC of the cellwhose coverage area the device is currently within may be comparedagainst the TACs in the stored TAL-LUT. If no match is found, the devicemay wake-up, if in sleep mode, and use its active transceiver to performa TAU procedure. Once the TAU procedure is completed, the device mayupdate its TAL-LUT and enter sleep mode.

Referring now to FIG. 48 , a diagram illustrating cell clusters isshown. The network may deploy multiple cell clusters that broadcast TAUcommands on distinct frequencies to identify tracking area (TA)boundaries. The TAU commands may employ a frame structure that includesa preamble and a body. The TAU command frame preamble may contain a TAboundary indicator code and the frame body may, for example, contain atracking area code (TAC). The cell clusters may include one or morecells and may constitute a part or all of a TA. The cell clusters may beconcentrated, for example, near the TA boundaries as illustrated in FIG.48 .

A device may identify a TA boundary crossing by detecting a change inthe carrier frequency of consecutively received TAU commands. The devicemay include multiple passive receivers with TAU command interpreterspreconfigured to operate on distinct carrier frequencies. Each passivereceiver may decode the preamble of a received TAU command and generatean interrupt when a TA boundary indicator code is decoded. The devicemay keep count of the number of interrupts generated, each representingthe detection of a change in carrier frequency. The number carrierfrequency changes may be compared to a TA boundary-crossing threshold.If the number of detected TA boundary crossings exceeds this thresholdthe device may wake-up, if in sleep mode, and use its active transceiverto perform a TAU procedure.

The network may deploy facilitators to enable a device to perform azero-energy TAU procedure using its passive transceiver that employsindirect modulation (also known as backscattering) while remaining insleep mode. The facilitator may be an eNB, an access point, a remoteradio head, or another device. A connected appliance, a connectedconsumer electronic device or any other connected device with wirelesscommunication capability may also function as a facilitator. Thefacilitator may be stationary or be capable of mobility. The facilitatorand the device may be in close proximity to one another and within thecoverage area of the same cell. The facilitator may access networksystem information to learn the TAC of the cell that it is currentlyattached to. The facilitator may transmit an unmodulated carrier and thedevice may include a passive transceiver employing indirect modulation(also known as backscattering) to communicate with the facilitator. Thefacilitator may read the TAL-LUT stored in the device and compare theTAC of the cell that it is currently attached to against the TACs in theretrieved TAL from the device. If no match is found, the facilitator mayperform a TAU procedure on behalf of the device. Once the zero-energyTAU procedure is completed the facilitator may update the TAL-LUT storedin the device.

Wakeup configuration and signaling schemes may be implemented asdescribed herein. Several WTRUs with passive wakeup transceivers may beserved by an eNB. The eNB may employ wakeup commands with unique energysignatures to wake up the WTRUs. The following description includespossible signaling schemes by which an eNB could configure the uniqueenergy signature associated with the WTRUs.

A group specific energy signature may be used for waking up specificclass of WTRUs. Tje group specific energy signature may be broadcast asa part of system information message (e.g., SIB-2/SIB-3 etc.). Anexample signaling in SIB-2 is shown below in Table 2.

TABLE 2 SystemInformationBlockType2 ::= SEQUENCE { radioResourceConfigCommon  RadioResourceConfigCommonSIB, ue-TimersAndConstants  UE-TimersAndConstants,  freqInfo SEQUENCE {  ul-CarrierFreq   ARFCN-ValueEUTRA   ul-Bandwidth  ENUMERATED {n6, n15,n25, n50, n75, n100}    additionalSpectrumEmission   AdditionalSpectrumEmission  },  Zero-energy signature seqeunceassignment SEQEUNCE{   UE-class1  s₁   UE-Class2  s₂   .........  .........  }

The values s₁ and s₂ may be multi-cast energy signature sequencesassigned for waking up WTRUs belonging to class-1 and class-2respectively.

The eNB may signal WTRU-specific energy signals as a part of an RRCmessage. In Table 3, the signature sequence may be signaled on the PCCHlogical channel.

TABLE 3 RRC_LTE: PCCH-message PCCH-Message ::= SEQUENCE {  message PCCH-MessageType } PCCH-MessageType ::= CHOICE {  c1 CHOICE { signature sequence e₁  },

The signature sequence e₁ may be assigned to the WTRU. If a WTRUreceives a signature assignment from both the common broadcast message(e.g., a system information message) and WTRU-specific messaging (e.g.,RRC), the WTRU may use the signature assignment received byWTRU-specific messaging.

Alternately, the EUTRAN may also signal the signature assignment usingboth the common broadcast message and WTRU-specific messaging. In theexamples shown above, s₁, s₂ could denote a set of sequences (e.g.,s₁={a₁, a₂, a₃, a₄}, s₂={b₁, b₂, b₃, b₄}, where a_(i), b_(i) aresignature sequences) that are transmitted through common broadcast(e.g., SIB), and e₁ could denote an integer that signifies the positionof the sequence in the sequence set. For the case when WTRU receives s₁,in the SIB, and e₁=2 in RRC, the assigned sequence would be a₂.

Referring now to FIG. 49 , a diagram illustrating a WTRU initiatedwakeup command energy signature assignment procedure is shown. The WTRUmay choose a signature sequence and signal the eNB regarding its chosensequence. The eNB may confirm that no other WTRU has selected the samesignature sequence. The WTRU may choose the signature sequenceindependently or with assistance from EUTRAN. The steps of the latterprocedure are described herein. It will be understood that one or moresteps outlined below may be performed in a different order thanpresented herein and that one or more steps may be added to or removedfrom the steps stated below.

The eNB may provide the sequence set (e.g., s₁) using SIB signaling. TheWTRU may randomly choose a sequence in the sequence set (e.g., e₁) as apart of RRC connection request. The eNB may reject or confirm theselected sequence based on whether the sequence has already beenselected by the other WTRU. WTRU2 may select the same sequence asselected by WTRU1. The eNB may reject the selected sequence and WTRU2may repeat the sequence selection step (i.e., RRC Connection Request).

Referring now to FIG. 50 , a diagram illustrating adaptive powertransmission for the wake-up process is shown. The amount of powerallocated for waking up a sensor may be dynamic. The amount of power maydepend on the number of unsuccessful attempts that have occurred attemptto wake up the sensor. This method may ensure that the right amount ofpower increase is performed at times that provide an acceptable tradeoffin waking up the senor and avoiding interference. For a first timeinstant, a minimum required power may be used. For every subsequentunsuccessful attempt, the power may be increased in steps until awake-up confirmation is received. More precisely, power allocation attime t, may be written as:

P _(t) =P _(t-1)+δ(t−1)r.  Equation 3

The variable r may represent the power step size increment. δ(x) mayrepresent the rate of increase provided at every time instant. As anexample, δ(x)=x² may represent a quadratic increase at everyunsuccessful attempt. On the other hand, δ(x)=c may represent a constantincrease at every unsuccessful instant. The aforementioned scheme maydepend on wake-up confirmation, so as to be able to adapt the transmitpower allocation at every unsuccessful instant.

A ‘blind’ scheme where the transmitter does not expect to receivewake-up confirmation may occur. In this case, there may be a fixednumber of re-transmissions for waking up the sensor with a powerincrease of δ(x).

A primary eNB may monitor the system information-2 (SIB-2) broadcastmessages of the neighboring cells. The primary eNB may infer the amountof the power that is provided by the neighboring cells in the resourceblocks of interest and the amount of additional power that it may needto provide for waking up the sensor. It will be understood that one ormore steps outlined below may be performed in a different order thanpresented herein and that one or more steps may be added to or removedfrom the steps stated below.

In step 1, the primary eNB may infer the energy per resource element(EPRE) for the reference signal of neighboring cells.

In step 2, the primary eNB may read the value of p-b from SIB-2 definedas ρ_(B)/ρ_(A), where ρ_(B) is the reference signal power, and ρ_(A) isthe PDSCH power.

From steps 1 and 2, the primary eNB may obtain the PDSCH power per EPREprovided by the neighboring cell i, to be P_(i) ^(pdsch). Assuming thatthe primary eNB allocates N resource blocks for waking up a sensor, theestimated power on these resource blocks contributed by a neighboringcell i, may be obtained to be P_(i)′=P_(i) ^(pdsch)×N_(RB)×N, whereN_(RB) denotes the number of resource elements per resource block.

The amount of additive power required to wake up the sensor may beestimated as {tilde over (p)}=P−Σ_(n)P_(n)′+δ, where P is the requiredtotal power to wake-up the sensor, and the quantity δ lumps theestimation error of neighboring cell's power, and the path losses thatneeds to be compensated by each of the cells.

Referring now to FIG. 51 , a diagram illustrating RB usage informationsharing based TX power adaptation of coordinating eNBs is shown. Theprimary eNB may request power allocation in its resource blocks ofinterest to the neighboring cells (secondary eNBs) explicitly throughthe X2 interface. Based on the power allocation by the neighboringcells, the primary eNB may estimate the required power quite accurately.

In step 1, the primary eNB may send out a request for neighboring cellsto provide power allocations on its resource blocks of interest (i.e.,the resource blocks intended to be used for wake-up purposes) for thenext T′s, where T′>(T₂−T₁). Assuming that T₂ denotes the time instant atwhich WTRU/sensor needs to be paged, T₁ may be chosen based on thebackhaul delay, which in turn depends on the inter-site distancesbetween primary eNB and the requested cells, to ensure availability ofinformation from the neighboring cells before the paging instant.

Power allocation may be provided by the neighboring cells in anon-causal manner if eNBs perform semi-persistent scheduling. Further,instead of explicitly requesting for power allocation by the primary eNBon specific resource blocks, the neighboring cells may report powerallocation on a wider set of resource blocks provided they include theresource blocks of interest on a periodic basis. The primary eNB may usethe latest received allocation or an average received over the lastseveral instances, as a good estimate. An advantage of this scheme isthat there is no implicit deadline before the paging instant by whichthe primary eNB needs to request power allocations from neighbors,albeit at the cost of accuracy.

In step 2 and step 3, the power usage information for the near futuremay be provided by the neighboring cells based on predetermined powerallocation that it follows or based on semi-persistent schedulingmechanisms.

In step 4, a paging instant transmission may be sent from the PrimaryeNB to a WTRU or sensor.

The network may broadcast a group-specific unique energy signature aspart of the system information message (e.g. SIB-2, SIB-3) to wake-up aspecific class of devices. The network may broadcast a device-specificunique energy signature as a part of the RRC message (e.g., signaled onthe PCCH logical channel) to wake-up a specific device. The network maybroadcast system information (e.g. tracking area identity, tracking areacode, etc.) using a tracking area update (TAU) command with a uniqueenergy signature. A device may receive a TAU command with a passivereceiver, interpreting a unique energy signature to access systeminformation and trigger a tracking area update procedure.

The description above may be applied to IEEE 802.11 systems. An AP mayuse a specialized beacon i. The beacon frame may be dual purpose. Thebeacon frame may be a conventional beacon frame and/or a wakeup beaconframe. An OFDM symbol constituting the wakeup beacon frame may include aunique pilot sequence in a set of preconfigured sub-carriers. The wakeupbeacon frame may include a unique energy signature.

An STA may receive a wakeup beacon frame with a passive receiver, decodea unique pilot sequence in a preconfigured set of sub-carriers of theOFMD symbol constituting the beacon frame, interpret a unique energysignature, and generating a wakeup interrupt.

The following description includes using a specialized beacontransmission to wake up a STA. The specialized beacon may serve as aconventional beacon frame for the STAs, and may serve as a wake-upsignal with a unique energy signature for the passive receiver in theSTAs.

Referring now to FIG. 52 , a diagram illustrating a specialized beacontransmission is shown. FIG. 52 illustrates a mechanism by which STAs maybe made aware of the specialized beacon transmitted by an AP. On the setof OFDM symbols during beacon frame transmission by PHY, a unique pilotsequence maybe transmitted (e.g., Zadoff Chu Sequence of length seven),in pre-configured sub-carriers such as wake-up pilot subcarriers shownin FIG. 52 .

The signature sequence for waking up the STA may be provided onpre-configured sets of subcarriers (e.g., wake-up signature subcarriers)that may be contiguous or distributed.

The presence of the unique wake-up pilot sequence on the wake-up pilotsubcarriers may make STAs aware that the current OFDM symbol is a partof the specialized beacon frame being transmitted. Hence, the STAs mayignore the wake-up signature subcarriers for decoding the beacon frames.

The passive receiver may decode the signal from the wakeup subcarriersand may wake up the active TRX in the STA if the decoded signaturematches its own wake-up signature. In order to prevent the passivereceivers waking up the active TRXs during conventional transmissions(i.e., to prevent false alarms), the secondary receiver may look for asignature in the wake-up carriers and for the existence of the uniquewake-up pilot sequence in the wake-up pilot subcarriers.

Referring now to FIG. 53 , a diagram illustrating a dedicated wakeupsignal transmission is shown. The dedicated wake-up signal may include agroup of OFDM symbols in time. The signal may be used for transmitting aunique energy signature associated with a wakeup command which may beused by the passive receiver in the STA to wake-up the active TRX. Thissignal may be transmitted right before the beacon, or may be transmittedany time when the AP senses the medium is free (e.g., betweenconsecutive beacon transmissions shown in FIG. 53 ). As described above,there may be a unique identifier (e.g., a Zadoff Chu sequence of length7) to make the wake-up receivers aware that this OFDM frame is intendedfor them, and for conventional STAs to discard this frame.

Individual and group wake up procedures and collision avoidance aredescribed herein. In conventional systems, STAs may be required towake-up at least at some multiples of beacon periods to know whetherthey have data to receive. The following description includes aprocedure to wake up only a subset of STAs (i.e., group-wake-upprocedure) using their passive receiver.

In addition to waking up STAs only as and when required, the methoddescribed herein may avoid collision that may be a potential problemthat would be present in PS-POLL phase.

Referring now to FIG. 54 , a diagram illustrating a wakeup commandenergy signature configuration, STA wakeup, and data transfer is shown.It should be understood that one or more steps outlined below may beperformed in a different order than presented herein and that one ormore steps may be added to or removed from the steps stated below.

Before the STA goes into the doze state (i.e., when the STA transmits anull frame with Power Management Bit set to 1), the AP may dynamicallyassign a wakeup command energy signature.

The same signature may be provided to multiple STAs about to enter thedoze state. In this case, the signature may be used by the AP to wake upmultiple STA. Alternately, unique signatures may be configured toindividual STAs, by the AP, for waking up individual STAs.

Before the beacon is transmitted by the AP, the AP may wake up the STAthat it indents to send buffered data to. The STA may be awakened by theAP transmitting the wakeup command with the unique signature that waspreviously configured.

Thereafter, conventional PS-POLL procedures may be undertaken. Onemodification to the conventional PS-POLL procedure may be that only asubset of STAs (i.e., STA's primary receivers) may have been awakened bythe AP.

Although the AP may wake up a subset of STAs, the traffic informationmap (TIM), that indicates the data available for STA, may not be changedand from conventional systems. This may be a result of the TIMcontaining data or storage items having information for other STAs thathave not woken up yet due to selective wakeup.

In the example call flow shown in FIG. 54 , both stations STA-1 andSTA-2 may be woken up. However, the PS-POLL may be successful for STA-1only. Alternatively, the STAs may be selectively woken up based on thepriority of data (e.g., AC_VI, AC_VO etc.,) that needs to be delivered,which may be known by the AP.

Conventional STAs may set a power management bit to 1 before going tosleep. This may allow the AP to know that the STA is going to be insleep mode so that AP may buffer packets.

For STAs that receive small amounts of data per wake-up cycle, thedefault operation may be to be awake for a specified amount of time(once they are woken up by the AP), and then go to sleep immediatelythereafter, without a ‘Power Management’ message. The STA may send amessage ‘M2M-mode operation request’ so that the AP knows that the STAis requesting to go to sleep after being awake for a fixed amount oftime. This configuration may be a one-time configuration that the STAmay request from the AP. There may be a confirm message from the AP‘M2M-mode confirm’ to the STA, to accept the M2M mode change. The STAmay wake up thereafter when it has data from the AP. If the STA wants tocancel the ‘M2M-mode operation’ it may have to wait till data isdelivered by the AP. Alternately, the AP may poll the STA after wakingit up once every T seconds for M2M mode cancellation. Here, T may be avery large value.

A multiple signature sequence for STA wakeup is described herein. Asignature sequence set S={s₀, s₁, . . . s_(N)} may be assigned towake-up an STA, where s_(i) is a unique signature sequence. Though anyof the sequences s_(i) may be used for waking up the STA, each sequencewill have different impacts on power saving capability. For example, s₀may be used for powering up one active receive chain of the STA, s₁ maybe used for powering up two receive chains and so forth. Depending onthe traffic that that is to be sent to STA, the AP may invokeappropriate signature sequences. As an example, if video traffic is tobe delivered to the STA, the AP may invoke a signature sequence thatwould make four receive chains active at the STA. A signature sequenceset may be constructed as a concatenation of a primary and a secondarysignature sequence. Here, S=[A_(p) A_(s)], where A_(p) is the basesignature sequence (for waking up the active TRX), and A_(s) may be thesecondary signature sequence of length ┌log₂N┐ bits (where N is thenumber of sequences in the signature set), used for invoking specificfeatures on the power saving capability of the STA.

Although the features and elements of the present invention may bedescribed in the embodiments in particular combinations or orders, eachfeature or element can be used alone without the other features andelements of the embodiments or in various combinations with or withoutother features and elements of the present invention.

Although the solutions described herein consider IEEE 802.11, LTE,LTE-A, New Radio (NR) or 5G specific protocols, it may be understoodthat the solutions described herein are not restricted to this scenarioand are applicable to other wireless systems as well.

Although features and elements are described above in particularcombinations, one of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that eachfeature or element can be used alone or in any combination with theother features and elements. In addition, the methods described hereinmay be implemented in a computer program, software, or firmwareincorporated in a computer-readable medium for execution by a computeror processor. Examples of computer-readable media include electronicsignals (transmitted over wired or wireless connections) andcomputer-readable storage media. Examples of computer-readable storagemedia include, but are not limited to, a read only memory (ROM), arandom access memory (RAM), a register, cache memory, semiconductormemory devices, magnetic media such as internal hard disks and removabledisks, magneto-optical media, and optical media such as CD-ROM disks,and digital versatile disks (DVDs). A processor in association withsoftware may be used to implement a radio frequency transceiver for usein a WTRU, UE, terminal, base station, RNC, or any host computer.

What is claimed is:
 1. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU)comprising: at least one antenna; a first transceiver operativelycoupled to the at least one antenna; and a second transceiveroperatively coupled to the at least one antenna, wherein: the at leastone antenna and the first transceiver are configured to receive a firstsignal from a network, wherein the received first signal comprises oneor more sections of different time duration and amplitudes, wherein theone or more sections have a same energy; the first transceiver isfurther configured to extract energy from the received first signal; thefirst transceiver is further configured to decode an energy signature ofthe received first signal by comparing a separation in time betweenenergy threshold events; the first transceiver is further configured to,on a condition that the decoded energy signature matches a configuredenergy signature, activate the second transceiver; and the at least oneantenna and the second transceiver are configured to receive a secondsignal from the network.